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Y’all may (well, those of you who actually read to the end of our columns) recall an article back on August 21st\u00a0TAH\u00a0 <\/a>in which I mentioned a new player in the gun safety training market.\u00a0 Everytown for Gun Safety, Mikey Bloomberg’s wholly-owned gun ban group.<\/p>\n \u201cTrain Smart\u201d is rolling out several segmented lessons, including \u201cThe Smart Guide to Buying a Gun,\u201d which features a one-hour course for prospective gun buyers who \u201cwant the facts about gun ownership without a sales pitch.\u201d Everytown will teach those gun buyers about why people own guns, facts surrounding gun ownership, secure storage, protecting a home, \u201cuniversal\u201d guns safety rule and what to look for in a gun.BFA<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Who would know better – after all, their legal pronouncements and gun nomenclature is all first-rate (ask them) and surely with all that accumulated wisdom they would be ideal at teaching gun safety. Well, maybe not. More like “assault weapons bad!” But hey, Mikey wants them to give it that good old college try.<\/p>\n Who doesn’t want guns handled more safely? I sure as hell do, I still have an occasional nightmare over that woman in Houston who had real issues on our range and was waving a loaded 9 with her finger on the trigger- covered me, her kid, her husband seemingly forever till I could get her hand back on the bench and the gun out of it. Maybe only a few seconds but a very LONG few seconds. Bet there isn’t an RSO alive who hasn’t had THAT happen. Please,\u00a0 more safety!<\/p>\n So let’s assume everyone wants everyone to act safer with their guns. Everytown normally wants your guns confiscated, locked in a fireproof box, and totally unobtainable, so you would think they would be all over pushing that viewpoint, right?<\/p>\n You’d be wrong.<\/p>\n A revealing article in USA Today last week reported that Everytown for Gun Safety\u2019s new \u201cfirearms training\u201d program, Train SMART, \u201cmet stiff opposition from [Everytown\u2019s] own members and longtime supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n The reason, as the article made clear, is simple. Gun control advocates don\u2019t want \u201charm reduction\u201d when it comes to gun ownership; they want \u201cabstinence.\u201d In other words, they see Everytown\u2019s firearm safety training as a betrayal because it tacitly acknowledges there is a place for firearms in America. What Everytown\u2019s supporters want, however, is to put an end to gun ownership \u2014 period.<\/p>\n One is quoted as calling Everytown\u2019s program \u201churtful and insulting to survivors.\u201d She elaborated: \u201cOur 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\u2019t have it both ways.\u201d<\/p>\n Another was \u201cso enraged by the Train SMART launch she resigned her position leading a local survivor group.\u201d It felt, she said, \u201clike a kick in the teeth. All these years working on expanded background checks and how we know having a gun in the home won\u2019t make you safer \u2026 this doesn\u2019t make any sense.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Everytown’s president, John Feinblatt was as dismissive of his members’ concerns as he normally is to gun owners.<\/p>\n Any new program, he told USA Today, comes with a mix of \u201ccuriosity, enthusiasm, and skepticism.\u201d<\/p>\n Feinblatt likewise unconvincingly tried to rebrand his own organization \u2014 which pursues sweeping bans on America\u2019s most popular firearms and harsh prior restraints on the ownership of other guns \u2014 as a \u201cwide tent \u2026 as opposed to being \u2026 anti-gun or hardline gun control.\u00a0\u00a0BFA II<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, pull the other one.\u00a0 They’re not hardline antigunners… any more than MADD favors drunken driving. I guess it’s at least consistent that Feinblatt seems to treat everyone as beneath contempt. I’m thinking Everytown’s safety training will be gone by the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"