If you're in the minority, then so am I. While I love that people have the right to carry a firearm, I think that if you don't know basic handgun knowledge before you get into the class, you should be dismissed. If you do things like load the magazine backwards, point the weapon at others, etc... you immediately fail. Guns are dangerous enough without licensing people who have absolutely no idea how to make one function, and do so safely. The LTC class is not a basic handgun class. It isn't designed to teach you "how" to operate the firearm. It's to show proficiency... which means you should already know how to make it function. I'm sorry, but if I was an instructor and you loaded the magazine backwards, you would immediately fail the course. You have clearly shown you are not ready to carry around a weapon.zmcgooga wrote:I'm all for everyone getting their LTC but shouldn't at some point an instructor have some liability that they may be licensing a person that could do more harm than good? If a student can only put 10-15 shots on target in a controlled environment what do you think they will do in a stressful situation with people standing around?
I've read other post on the forum about how some think that the class is to hard or easy and both have valid points and I'm not trying to say that these "special" students do not have a right to carry a gun. I just think that maybe there should be a prerequisite class of basic firearm safety, that stresses the safety and proper handling of a firearm.
I may be in the minority but just looking back on the whole situation kind of causes an uneasiness of what skill level is allowed to carry.
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- Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Worst LTC Student?
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