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That addresses the medical issue...kind of....until my child is at least 9 months old I have to be there every four hours....so that kind of addresses the medical part of it...not really, but the state gets points for effort in this case. In my case I would still be risking mastitis and possibly a plugged milk duct were I to try more than 4 hours (I pushed it on the day I took the class and was gone for 4.5 hours and I was engorged and it was most painful).

Doing it two weeks in a row would now cause additional problems as well. Now instead of giving up one weekend of my life and paying one babysitter (no little thing when the going rate is almost $10/hour). I have to give up two weekend and pay more $$? I don't see a good reason for that. I think a basic course is just fine. In fact I would be fine with no course at all. I would be fine with constitutional carry with the option to get a permit to be recognized by other states.

Here in VA it is 4 hours. It teaches you basically how to not kill yourself or others that you don't wish to kill. It also impresses upon you the seriousness of what it is you are undertaking. I think it was just fine.

Now some of y'all who love to take classes and spend boatloads of time think about this a bit. When I took my class I had a 3 month old child. I was a nursing mother. I could not be gone for more than 1 feeding of the child for health reasons for him and me. Some moms can be gone for hours even days with no ill effects. I cannot. So if the class had been ten hours I would not have been able to get my permit for another 9 months. Nine months in which I would have been without a sufficient defense of that child. Moms even moms of small babies should be able to defend themselves. A four hour class is plenty of time in which to learn enough to not kill yourself or someone else (unless the occasion calls for it).