Amazing... For entertainment value, my family sometimes watches "Doomsday Preppers", mostly to learn what not to do, w/ an occasional nugget of good info.
This guy on tonights, "Hustle, Bustle, Survive" episode (LINK AT THE START OF PAGE 4) demonstrates his "Crovel" multitool for taking out your "foe" and a myriad of other more mundane tasks. Then, later in the show he takes his boys to the range to "train" them on how to use firearms.
From what it looked like, like most "zombie training", the drills consisted of haphazardly blasting Ruger .22's & a 12 gauge at various targets of opportunity randomly scattered around w/ no perceived firing line or dedicated safety officer.
Then suddenly..."Man Down!!"... the main character hits the ground holding his hand looking like he was going into shock.
He states that the gun, "malfunctioned" & injured him". Later he adds that, "It malfunctioned WHILE HIS HAND WAS IN FRONT OF THE MUZZLE!"
And finally he tells his boys (nothing like teaching by example... I'm sure they won't forget the day their father blew his thumb off at the range) that you should never point the muzzle at anything you're not willing to kill or destroy."
While I understand that accidents can happen to anyone it continues to amaze me how many so called "gun experts" who have owned & shot guns "their whole lives & don't need no training" cannot state or demonstrate the 4 BASIC SAFETY RULES of firearms safety but have no problem "teaching" anyone & everyone who'll let them how to use firearms.
Ownership does not insure proficiency.
For those of you who do know & consistently FOLLOW proper safety rules, PLEASE, PLEASE. PLEASE teach those principles & the reasons behind them to all of the new gun-owners that you can.
Every time a self-professed expert or "gun-nut" shares or demonstrates his or her ignorance through unsafe handling or someone gets injured or worse as a result besides the obvious it gives the anti-gunners a more legitimate argument why some people shouldn't own a gun.
This guy on tonights, "Hustle, Bustle, Survive" episode (LINK AT THE START OF PAGE 4) demonstrates his "Crovel" multitool for taking out your "foe" and a myriad of other more mundane tasks. Then, later in the show he takes his boys to the range to "train" them on how to use firearms.
From what it looked like, like most "zombie training", the drills consisted of haphazardly blasting Ruger .22's & a 12 gauge at various targets of opportunity randomly scattered around w/ no perceived firing line or dedicated safety officer.
Then suddenly..."Man Down!!"... the main character hits the ground holding his hand looking like he was going into shock.
He states that the gun, "malfunctioned" & injured him". Later he adds that, "It malfunctioned WHILE HIS HAND WAS IN FRONT OF THE MUZZLE!"
And finally he tells his boys (nothing like teaching by example... I'm sure they won't forget the day their father blew his thumb off at the range) that you should never point the muzzle at anything you're not willing to kill or destroy."
While I understand that accidents can happen to anyone it continues to amaze me how many so called "gun experts" who have owned & shot guns "their whole lives & don't need no training" cannot state or demonstrate the 4 BASIC SAFETY RULES of firearms safety but have no problem "teaching" anyone & everyone who'll let them how to use firearms.
Ownership does not insure proficiency.
For those of you who do know & consistently FOLLOW proper safety rules, PLEASE, PLEASE. PLEASE teach those principles & the reasons behind them to all of the new gun-owners that you can.
Every time a self-professed expert or "gun-nut" shares or demonstrates his or her ignorance through unsafe handling or someone gets injured or worse as a result besides the obvious it gives the anti-gunners a more legitimate argument why some people shouldn't own a gun.
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