[Vision2020] Handgun Clinic

[Joe Campbell]

Thanks Janesta. 

I don't own a gun nor do I plan to either. But I've been taking gun safety and shooting lessons with my son for a few months now. My son overnighted as at a friend's house and ended up shooting guns with my approval. So I thought it would be good if he knew what he was doing and a friend offered to help. 

Actually I enjoy the sport of shooting now and not just because it gives something for my son and I to do together. I doubt I'll ever get a gun since statistics clearly indicate that you are far more likely to be harmed by a gun than to be helped.

But I agree with Janesta that if folks are going to have guns better that they know how to use them. Nothing wrong with gun safety lessons.

On the other hand, I agree with Tom and others that carrying guns for safety reasons and the general paranoia associated with events like this are a bit disturbing. Moscow is one of the safest communities in the country.

Joe


On Jun 24, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Janesta <janesta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vera stated in her column, Larry wanted to remind members of a handgun clinic. A "reminder" tells me this is not the original information, which I assume was given at an earlier date
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> Had The Inkster done her homework... say google Larry Cernik's name, her article would have been informative. Curious, I googled.
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> As Paul Harvey coined.. here is "The Rest of the Story"  
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> *laughing*
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> Perhaps, not 100% the rest of the story, but, you all get my drift.
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> Larry Cernik is the Idaho state coordinator for Project Appleseed, a nationwide shooting and history program administered by the Revolutionary War Veterans Association.
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> Instructor link-
> http://www.appleseedinfo.org/instructors_compare.html
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> Pricing link- $50.00 for a day session
> http://www.appleseedinfo.org/pricing.html
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> Women in Appleseed-
> http://www.appleseedinfo.org/ladyseed.php
> http://www.appleseedinfo.org/women.html
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> It appears to me, more people are buying handguns for protection. Gun owners need to be educated on how to keep a gun safe in the home, and the use of a gun under emotional pressure, among other important issues. When having conversations with police officers in the past. Every one of them told me, if my life were at immediate risk, I should shoot to kill.  A shot in the arm or leg, will not stop a meth head (or the like) from continuing their quest to kill you. A wounded animal is a crazed animal.
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> Fish and Game offer gun safety classes, as do The Pink Pistols...
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> http://www.joehuffman.org/PalousePinkPistols.htm 
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> Guns are not going away in the near future, I'd rather gun owners were educated, than not.
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> No, I don't own a gun, nor do I plan on purchasing one.
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> Janesta
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> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> "'This course is designed to bring you up to speed with the basic principles of employing a handgun in self-defense,' Cernik wrote."
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> Get EFFING real!  Armed self-defense in Moscow, Idaho???
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> Has paranoia toward our neighbors developed such a stranglehold here in Moscow that afternoon family conversation has degenerated to . . .
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> "Honey, I'm going to the mailbox to get the mail.  Cover me!"
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> Or is it that Doug Wilson and Christ Church have found themselves so deep in the fiscal red zone that a money-making bonanza such as a series of self-run, multiple-level, uncertified self-defense gun clinics was the easiest way out ("Participants had to register in advance for the Level 1 Basic Handgun Clinic, which cost $50 per person.").
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> I'm guessin' that the first couple hours of the Level 1 "clinic" will consist of the boyz gatherin' 'round the beer cooler comparin' guns, seeking the answer to that age-old question, "Who has the biggest one?", much like the Trinity Fest and its self-indulgent truck rally that can only be best summed up in song . . .
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> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Hummer.mp3
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
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> - Unknown
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> On Jun 23, 2012, at 8:28, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
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>> "This course is designed to bring you up to speed with the basic principles of employing a handgun in self-defense," Cernik wrote
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