• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I worked with someone who was an NRA certified instructor, competitive shooter, and all around badass.

    She hated these chuds in class because they weren’t just idiots who made things unsafe, but they were also misogynists who wouldn’t listen to her instructions.

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      12 days ago

      who wouldn’t listen to her instructions.

      Sounds like some people should fail the class if they can’t/won’t follow simple instructions

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      11 days ago

      Sounds like the camo clad, face painted, Rambo knife holding guides on some nature trails/ glamping grounds.

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    11 days ago

    Just looked it up - CCW stands for “concealed carry weapon”, so this was a gun class.

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      Thanks I was wondering why they had specific classes to learn to rotate things counterclockwise

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            11 days ago

            Until you pass the class you can only rotate things clockwise. Have you been illegally rotating? The Feds are going to hear about this injustice.

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                Don’t be so dramatic. If it rotates the wrong way just look down the barrel when it fires and you are safe. Why do you think the right is so obsessed with orientation?

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              11 days ago

              Commenter is from Australia. Down there, things naturally rotate counter-clockwise, and they have to take a Clock-Wise class.

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    11 days ago

    I don’t know if it’s the same everywhere, but where I live, CC classes don’t even have guns and you don’t shoot. It’s all about instructed safety and such.

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      11 days ago

      In Lesser Carolina the teacher is fully armed with multiple concealed guns to show all the ways to conceal. After the classroom session you head out to the range to get tested on marksmanship at different distances.

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        11 days ago

        My class in Wisconsin was this way as well. The classroom portion focused heavily on trying to avoid needing to use your gun, but if you have to, do these things.

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          Mine in Minnesota was the same way. They have to verify that you can comptently use a firearm before they give you the concealed carry permit.

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            Honestly I’d prefer that sorta. Here you get your CC without ever touching a gun, but when I first shot pistols and rifles it was nothing like I expected.

            I also quickly learned I’m a terrible aim, so in self defense would likely need to go with a shotgun or something…

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              11 days ago

              In self defense pulling out a gun and shooting towards the direction of an assailant should be more than enough to give you GTFO-time.

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              10 days ago

              Yeah, for our class, we had to get a minimum number of shots on the target at 10 yards if I’m remembering correctly.

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    10 days ago

    Just tell everyone you have a small penis. It’s much easier than putting on your hockey gear every morning.

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    10 days ago

    I would find it hilarious to wear something similar just to troll.* I would also loudly interrupt the instructor every time they start going off on their tangential, ‘really experienced themselves,’ stories about how if they’d been ready to handle things like I was, they wouldn’t have had the experience with their gun that they had.

    *I’ve been to some of these classes. They are almost universally taught by someone with a mentality probably exactly along the lines of the dude pictured, but with some social awareness that told them people would be watching them too closely… and they love to tell ‘their’ stories about when they had to use or display their gun. I always did the smart thing and kept my head down and try to ignore the rednecks/tacticool operators fantasizing about shooting whatever flavor of humanity they looked down on.