I hear that! I often have to really work at it to not be "mean" to shooters who just keep their head in the sand and only seem to notice anything about "law" when it finally hits them. Then they of course are mad.
You would think that but it doesn't work that way. Every year, the closest hotel to, well I won't name the gun school, but they have a TV shot by someone dry firing. One thing I tell my students, in addition to the usual safe direction speech, is before you begin dry firing anywhere but the range, check the gun and tell yourself out loud "This is practice, this is practice, this is practice". When you are done and are reloading the gun, tell yourself "This is real, this is real, this is real". I don't remember who I learned this from but I think it's very important. I've witnessed an ND from dryfire and it's not fun. Pretty loud too. Fortunately no one was hurt other than hearing damage.
Massad Ayoob said something like that. I bought a dry-fire magazine so I can use it in my Glock 19,23,32,& 45. Worth the $100
In one of Mass A's books he retells a story like this. Class he was showing people how to check the timing of a wheel gun. Empty gun, hold gentle pressure against the cylinder with thumb while slowly squeezing the trigger. When the hammer falls see if the cylinder still turns any more and you hear the click of the hand locking in. Since the hand should have locked in before the hammer fell. So at break in class one student goes out to car, gets his wheel gun out of glove box to try this. He forgot step #1 and touches off a round.
In one of Mass A's books he retells a story like this. Class he was showing people how to check the timing of a wheel gun. Empty gun, hold gentle pressure against the cylinder with thumb while slowly squeezing the trigger. When the hammer falls see if the cylinder still turns any more and you hear the click of the hand locking in. Since the hand should have locked in before the hammer fell. So at break in class one student goes out to car, gets his wheel gun out of glove box to try this. He forgot step #1 and touches off a round.
Grrr!"The WA bill was lengthy enough that lazy voters neglected to take the time to read the dozen
pages or so and using their brain. Instead, they relied on fast food information from sound
bites, short web links etc. I swear, it was like gun owners in the state demonstrated ADD or
something rather than using reading and critical thinking skills. "
The law going in was one thing, what bothers me more is Sporting Systems owner put in a butt load of time and money to put the law up in front of the voters again. To give gun owners a chance at a do over. The vast majority of the gun owners could not be bothered to sign the petition. A LOT of those same gun owners blame this on "we are outnumbered" so we can't win
Well you can leave too, which is rapidly becoming the only viable choice.
