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 Frazzled wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
Ok, whatever. Just an idea. Evil cat person coming out of me.

Ah, now we understand (gets the net) here kitty kitty I've got some nice catnup for you kitty kitty...

Whoah man... I'm a cat person, and I would never advocate killing a dog... especially the children of the Great Wienie!

 azazel the cat wrote:

Seaward wrote:I'm still waiting on some of our all-knowing expert Canadian university students to tell us what exactly their ideal firearms safety course looks like.

University graduates. And that really doesn't have anything to do with this conversation, but it was nice of you to let your personal feelings of inadequacy come out to play.


To answer your question: will this suffice?



EDIT: Frazzled; yes it does involve the RCMP. However, you can also obtain the same course from private institutions, like I did.

This class appears dangerously deficient. It says nothing about how to put down a zombie or werewolf, and hardly mentions gremlins at all eh?


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 Seaward wrote:
So basically the standard concealed carry course in the US.

Yeah, nobody gets through that and does something stupid with a gun. Top notch.

Sounds a bit more like a basic NRA course but yea about the same (sans good advice on how to deal with zombies, comancheros, or the boogie man)

 Frazzled wrote:
Sounds a bit more like a basic NRA course but yea about the same (sans good advice on how to deal with zombies, comancheros, or the boogie man)

Well, keep in mind I'm from Virginia, where your training requirement for concealed carry can literally be met by watching a YouTube video.

 Seaward wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Sounds a bit more like a basic NRA course but yea about the same (sans good advice on how to deal with zombies, comancheros, or the boogie man)

Well, keep in mind I'm from Virginia, where your training requirement for concealed carry can literally be met by watching a YouTube video.

Gotcha. Ours are substantially more expensive, and thus, more boring. One the positive every class I've been to has served barbeque for lunch.

 azazel the cat wrote:

Seaward wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:
Things like this can most definitely be regulated away: simply make safety training a mandatory requirement for anyone to possess a firearm.

Do you think this cop didn't undergo safety training?

Can't say. He's a sheriff's deputy; I'm unclear what kind of training they require.

Sheriff's deputies are the police at the county level. Around here, sheriff's deputies have the same training as any other police and they have to be police academy graduates.

Yeah police standards here in C.O. at least are set by POST, everyone does the same basic training standards, sometimes a little stricter tolerances, and then they get fill in "flavor" education from their respective forces. Pueblo cops get trained differently then Staties, etc.

 Hordini wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:

Seaward wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:
Things like this can most definitely be regulated away: simply make safety training a mandatory requirement for anyone to possess a firearm.

Do you think this cop didn't undergo safety training?

Can't say. He's a sheriff's deputy; I'm unclear what kind of training they require.

Sheriff's deputies are the police at the county level. Around here, sheriff's deputies have the same training as any other police and they have to be police academy graduates.

Around here, they're usually pretty fat and training is...less than it could be.

I do have an issue with many police forces not having a continual fitness requirement. A friend of mine who was a local police chief said that the physical fitness test was only required to get on. Once you were on the force you didn't have to keep passing fitness tests unless you were on the SWAT team. That seems a little messed up.

Seaward wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:
To answer your question: will this suffice?

So basically the standard concealed carry course in the US.

Yeah, nobody gets through that and does something stupid with a gun. Top notch.

I never said it was a perfect solution, but it definitely cuts down the percentages. I did, however, say that you were rushing at record speed into a nirvana fallacy of ignoring an imperfect solution because it was imperfect.

Frazzled wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:

Seaward wrote:I'm still waiting on some of our all-knowing expert Canadian university students to tell us what exactly their ideal firearms safety course looks like.

University graduates. And that really doesn't have anything to do with this conversation, but it was nice of you to let your personal feelings of inadequacy come out to play.


To answer your question: will this suffice?



EDIT: Frazzled; yes it does involve the RCMP. However, you can also obtain the same course from private institutions, like I did.

This class appears dangerously deficient. It says nothing about how to put down a zombie or werewolf, and hardly mentions gremlins at all eh?

That's a separate, elective course. But it should be mandatory now that our government is fully behind opposition to a cross-border zombie migration.

Canada will not become a haven for zombies! Me likey!