I'm from Texas originally, and training was required there. But you had to go through a state approved course, and it was expensive. In the end, it was around $500 for the license and training. Poor people should be allowed to defend themselves too, don't ya think? The state pays for driver safety, why not gun safety? It doesn't matter if gun rights die by quick legislation, or slow suffocation.. Once those rights are gone, they're gone.
Guncurious. Here we are talking about this again. Didn't you listen the last time? Changing the way you ask a question in hopes that you'll get a different answer, doesn't change anything. Incremental erosion of rights is still erosion of rights. You keep floating by us these worn out gun control ideas to see what "gun people" think of them. I have an idea. Instead of asking people on the internet what they think about guns, why don't you go to a gun range and rent a gun. Better yet, go spend a few hundred dollars on a training course. Oh, you don't have the money for that? Well, not everyone does. Why shouldn't the government say you have to go through a training course before you can OWN a gun? It sounds perfectly legitimate, right? Until you realize that you're CHARGING PEOPLE TO EXCERCISE THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to keep and bear arms. Why not require training on voting? You know, $2 or 300 to train you on history and civic responsibility. Voting is too important to be in the hands of the ignorant, right? You see the slippery slope?
The vast majority of gun "accidents" don't happen when CPL licensees are carrying. It's suicides and accidents in the home. The really preventable accidents are kids getting their parents guns, and that's a small fraction of the total number of gun deaths per year. And there are training programs available through the NRA. So why doesn't the state encourage the Eddie Eagle programs in schools? Why aren't there aggressive training programs for kids? There's your big piece of information to put on whatever school paper you're writing.