Making more targets

Making more targets

Being an American Marine, I think I know something about guns, like rifles and pistols. Mostly my knowledge is through training, and a ruthless enforcement of safety and security, too. For example, I had to requalify annually on the rifle and pistol.  The first week was “dry fire” mostly to train up and save money, too. The second week was “live fire” with the last day being “for the record” of my rifle requalification that year. Pistol requalification “for the record” usually occurred the day before, like on Thursday.  Then and only then I could go fight for my Country.

And if one can reasonably expect to use their weapon in the next year in combat, then an additional step of aligning the sights with the bullet aim is also done. That’s just part of being an American Marine.

So I was mostly amused when I read a story today about some MIT students arming themselves for their own idealogy.  Sounds so faddish, which I suspect it was, but I don’t really know for sure. Real use of weapons, and gun control in general, is more complicated than what they were doing at the time.

Americans count on it, too.