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what a stupid video…. I am all for training but the video is stupid.
“Studies show people who buy guns for protection are the least likely to receive training”
As opposed to what…. are people who buy guns to rob liquor stores more likely to receive training? what about people who steal guns, people who inherit guns, people who find a gun in the woods, are they more lkely to receive training? … what a bs thing to make a key point.
… For Sandy Phillips, the training is offensive. Phillips, whose daughter Jessica Ghawi, 24, was killed in the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, movie theater attack, has long battled firearms and ammunition manufacturers, even going bankrupt after losing a lawsuit against the companies that sold their daughter’s killer ammunition, tear gas and body armor.
“What they’re doing is so hurtful and so insulting to survivors. It’s like ‘oh my God, how could any survivor continue to support them?’” Phillips told USA TODAY. “People are hurt and confused. Our mission is to reduce gun violence and keep people from having guns in their homes and here you are giving a gun safety class that encourages gun ownership. You can’t have it both ways.” …
… Deborah Parker, of Arizona, was so enraged by the Train SMART launch she resigned her position leading a local survivor group. Her daughter, Lindsay, 19, was shot and killed in 2006.
“I heard about the program on Facebook. It felt like a kick in the teeth,” Parker said. “All of these years working on expanded background checks and how we know having a gun in the home won’t make you safer… this doesn’t make any sense.”
Parker said she thought Everytown was wasting precious resources on “reinventing the wheel” on training when they could simply link out to politically neutral gun training programs that already exist. …
The blowback reaches the journalists:
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