I truly feel that each and every gun control legislator needs to face down true criminal elements/threats/attackers while being unarmed and without paid guards until police respond to a 911 call to come to their aid.
I completely agree with this principle, and firmly believe that the best way to change the minds of those who are anti-gun is to give them a force-on-force training experience.
Having taken force-on-force training, where Simunitions were used, the perspective one gains from that type of course is considerable.
It’s amazing to see the speed at which events unfold, the unpredictability of the other person’s behavior, and the way various factors impact your response.
This type of training also hammers home, usually with tactile feedback, that there are direct consequences if you fail.
Equally important, those scenarios make it crystal clear that:
1.) Unarmed individuals are just along for the ride, and are subject to the whims of their assailant.
2.) When one carries a firearm, their ability to influence the situation increases considerably, and the chances of a negative outcome are greatly reduced.
3.) Even if one does have a firearm, there is still uncertainty, and there’s always the possibility that their outcome may still be negative, regardless.
4.) In this type of encounter, virtually everyone would want to have the tools needed to defend themselves
To drive the lesson home, the legislators should have multiple opportunities to run through the scenarios - first without a firearm, then again with firearms. That way, they can see what it’s like to be in that type of encounter, both with and without a firearm, and they’ll all have a common point of reference upon which to base their views.
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Also, if our elected officials won’t give us more than 60-120 seconds for testimony, and some of those legislators don’t even have the basic decency to stay and listen to citizens who are providing input on a bill that they introduced, then I’m sure they probably won’t want to devote a couple of hours to force-on-force training.