Florida Guns

I am all in favor of the current Florida laws concerning guns. I hope the idea spreads.
But I also hope that manditory training also spreads.
Nobody questions the idea of learning to drive before getting a driver's licence. They even teach driving in some of the high schools.
So why don't they teach shooting before issuing gun licences?

A handgun is possibly the most difficult tool the human race has ever come up with. Thousands of hours of TV and movies have convinced many of us that the hardest part of using a pistol is getting it out of your pants fast enough. they are wrong.
The real culprit was the penny dreadfuls - the comic books and pulp novels of the 1890s - which told the stories of Jesse James and the other outlaws. They would relate how these desperados could draw and fire in a heartbeat, and shoot out the pip of an Ace of Spades at 200 feet.
Well, Ol' Jesse started out as a member of Quantrell's raiders during the Civil War, alongside other penny dreadful stalwarts like Cole Younger. After the war, he continued as an outlaw. By the 1880s, he had been using that Navy Colt of his daily, under combat conditions, for well over a decade. You do that, and you'll be able to pick off playing cards, too.

The point is that most people don't train long enough and often enough to use a handgun effectively. If you're one of the majority who go to a range about once every couple of months, then the day you're threatened by a mugger will be you're last. You'll pull your heat, put a slug into the tree across the street, and take a slug in the chest from someone who DOES shoot daily. Like many of Jesse James's victims, you'll find out why plowboys shouldn't pull on gunfighters.

America needs a law that makes it manditory to receive firearms training in order to receive a license - and make it a lot easier to get that training. A voluntary high school program would be nice - as it's voluntary, the left wingers can't yell it out of existance, and it will serve a good purpose both in national defence and in personal defence.

Florida is the perfect place to start a pilot project. Can you hear me, Gov. Bush?