While perhaps true (I won’t contest the charge because it isn’t germane to the point), we do well to remember that correlation is not causation. Having a preference towards partners with the same chromosome pair is quite different than having a preference for partners too young to legally vote. There may be some small center circle on a Venn diagram, but you would find that same overlap if you did that diagram among folks of different professions, different ages, different zip codes, you name it. For those in the Gun Culture (to use the phrase) we’re just a bunch of folks sharing a hobby, or perhaps our favorite sport, and like most folks we’re pleased that somebody else shares the interest and want to be as helpful as we can and don’t really care all that much if your assembly instructions only have tabs or slots in them. For instructors, particularly the NRA-certified, I believe this is covered under the rule about attitude being the most important thing an instructor brings to bear, and the most important part of safe gun handling. Unless it is causing a safety issue or disruptive to the classroom, it’s not a problem. Speaking personally, as a NRA-certified instructor in a few categories, it is incumbent upon me to represent the standards and professionalism of NRA-certified instructors in my role and provide the class to any who hire me for it who are not disqualified by felony conviction or similar. My response to Mister Alvarenga above is that he speaks of educating people, but by only handing out locks it’s sort of akin to teaching people to lock their cars but not how to drive. Proper education should include how to safely use, care for, store, and be proficient with that firearm, which an NRA Basic Rifle|Pistol|Shotgun course will cover. I’d be happy to teach that course for free to anybody willing, as I’m sure most instructors will, but I do have some family reservations about spending the rent money on instruction materials and renting a facility and insurance and all that other stuff to give the NRA course. If he can get the sponsors to chip in for those items, maybe a lunch of hot dogs and a salad from a local food truck or we do this at a church and use their kitchen, he’ll go a long way towards making people truly safe and competent around firearms. Purely as an idea, there are Boy Scout and 4H camps across the nation with certified ranges, as well as facilities for classrooms. I suspect they would be more than happy to rent them for a reasonable cost for such an endeavor.

That is a wonderful story. Based on a situation that my wife happened across a few decades ago, I’m pretty sure she would have reacted like one of those ladies. I agree that women especially should be armed and well trained with their weapons.

Wonderful story. You had great parents! Great to hear every lady in the class stood as tall as your Mom.

I’d like to ask Colion Noir, or maybe LtCol Allen West about that.

Because he’s from a demographic statistically most likely to harm children (something over 10 times).

Because the totality of the leftist media apparatus hammers their audience 24/7 with fanciful tales of pickup trucks packed with swastika clad hillbillies dragging anyone literate behind them down dirt roads to nowhere.

Who can blame them? Obviously there are more Nazis here than were in Germany during WWII. Obviously tens of millions of white people feed off the blood of minority of every stripe.

It’s amazing any of them steel the resolve to leave their homes what with the very real and persistent threat of the everyday lynching.

This, this is truly what the “gun culture” is here in the US – it’s really liberty culture.