CA Concealed Carry Instructor Shows How NOT To Handle A Firearm

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/ Rick Bowmer

In this tense political environment, it’s important that anyone who supports gun rights does things correctly every step of the way. We can’t afford to be stupid, and that doesn’t just apply to politics. We have to be careful in our handling of firearms. After all, don’t a lot of our arguments hinge on the idea of responsible gun ownership?

Now, let’s be fair. The vast majority of gun owners are responsible. If they weren’t, we’d have a real problem in this country since we’ve got more guns than people (and it’s glorious). The fact that we don’t tells us that most gun owners aren’t stupid.

Anti-gunners, however, think we are. They think we need to undergo professional training before we’re permitted to exercise fundamental human rights like the right to keep and bear arms.

But what happens when the person being stupid is the one charged with training folks?

A Riverside, California man attending a firearms training class to get his concealed weapons permit was accidentally shot by a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department trainer, the department told The Desert Sun.

On Aug. 10, the man, identified only as a civilian, was participating …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms