Pistol Safety

[RadarTech]

I agree,I shoot IDPA/USPSA alot and consider myself a decent pistol shot,I also understand it is very hard to shoot accurately under stress.It takes alot of practice to be able to do it well.The person who shoots only a few times a year is not going to do well.
Anyone who carries should try a IDPA OR A USPSA shoot it will be a eye opening if you do not practice alot.

I agree!!
I am a good shot... But at a match (I just left a USPSA match) when that buzzer goes off a lot of things go awry including accuracy...
A carefully aimed, slow shot is not going to happen for most people under stress... And that is what needs to happen in many situations to prevent a friendly fire incident...

 

[TripleR]

No one said it would be easy, only that it is easier with a weapon than without one.

 

[RoyJackson]

I agree!!
I am a good shot... But at a match (I just left a USPSA match) when that buzzer goes off a lot of things go awry including accuracy...
A carefully aimed, slow shot is not going to happen for most people under stress... And that is what needs to happen in many situations to prevent a friendly fire incident...

Very true, but that old boy (71, IIRC) did pretty good in that internet cafe robbery in Florida recently...

 

[k0ua]

22 years ago I used to think I was a good shot, then I joined a USPSA/IPSC club and learned I would not make a pimple on a good shots.... Anyway I started shooting under stress, several times a month and had friends come over between matches and we started practicing. I got better, notice I did not say I got good.. I have shot with world champions, they are good. I learned that when the timer went beep, sometime your abilities and plans go beep too! but anyone can get better if they practice. Some of the people I shot with, some of you would not believe what they can do.. The shooting sports are the only sport I know of where you can rub shoulders and shoot with some of the best athlete's in the world. I can't think of any other sport you can do that.

James K0UA

 

[aczlan]

Psychiatry is a very inexact profession...more or less one person's opinion based upon what? A mood? I would be very very leary about this being allowed without some kind of safeguard to ensure the shrink wasn't involving his own personal beliefs and prejudices in any decision.

I agree. Wouldn't be too hard for someone to be recommended for a psyc eval (lets say with a nasty divorce) and get sent to someone who always says no. That could then be used in said nasty divorce.
Yes, it would happen.

Aaron Z

 

[greasemonkeyok]

Maybe the answer is to simply recognize that the price of freedom includes an element of risk to society from those with psychiatric problems. That doesn't mean we should sell guns to everyone including known schizophrenics, but don't try to pre-screen everyone who wants to buy a gun for psychiatric problems. We would end up with the same kind of BS we have at the airport with TSA, AND society would still have risk.

 

[greasemonkeyok]

Psychiatry is a very inexact profession...more or less one person's opinion based upon what? A mood? ....

What irony coming from someone who signs each post with "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity...."

 

[Soundguy]

Maybe the answer is to simply recognize that the price of freedom includes an element of risk to society from those with psychiatric problems. That doesn't mean we should sell guns to everyone including known schizophrenics, but don't try to pre-screen everyone who wants to buy a gun for psychiatric problems. We would end up with the same kind of BS we have at the airport with TSA, AND society would still have risk.

yup.. freedom has cost...

 

[RoyJackson]

Maybe the answer is to simply recognize that the price of freedom includes an element of risk to societyfrom those with psychiatric problems. That doesn't mean we should sell guns to everyone including known schizophrenics, but don't try to pre-screen everyone who wants to buy a gun for psychiatric problems. We would end up with the same kind of BS we have at the airport with TSA, AND society would still have risk.

I agree 100%

 

[RoyJackson]

What irony coming from someone who signs each post with "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity...."

That's a quote attributed to Sigmund Freud and directed to those anti-rights people that occasionaly pop up on TBN. Supposedly, Freud didn't say or write those exact words though.
And yes, I think anyone who equates violence with the tool rather then the intent is nuts...