morcey2
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That conclusion is that if you've never touched a gun in your life, you probably won't be able to defend yourself with one. In other news, people who have never touched a piano do very poorly when trying to perform on piano at Carnegie Hall.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...-get-killed-in-selfdefense-simulator-n2031884
So, National Gun Victims Action Council commissions a study by Mount St Mary's University to study how training affects how successfully people defend themselves with a firearm. They used a firearms training simulator. What did they find?
1. Police are your saviors.
2. If you're not an LEO, you're going to get yourself killed or kill an innocent person if you decide to carry a gun.
That's what they say. My interpretation is different. Basically that if you don't have training and don't practice enough, you'll likely not be able to defend yourself effectively.
The majority of people who participated in the study were people who had never had any training and had either never touched a gun or had done so very rarely.
Some problems with the study. First, sample size. From the actual study:
In the words of Brian Kenny, how about some Small Sample-Size Theater!
Second, they used Officers from same department that was running the training facility where the study was conducted:
Personally, I think that probably skewed the results in their favor already.
Anyway, it's later than I thought. Here's a link to the actually study doc:
http://www.gunvictimsaction.org/downloads22/FirearmsTrainings _StudyDocument_F_062115.pdf
and a link to the press release:
https://gunvictimsaction.org/press-...ndependent-study-at-police-training-facility/
The gist of it is this: They are pushing for mandatory firearms training which must be renewed bi-annually in order to even handle a gun. As an NRA Instructor, I firmly believe that everyone who uses a gun should have some training, but I'm absolutely against any mandate of said training.
Matt
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...-get-killed-in-selfdefense-simulator-n2031884
So, National Gun Victims Action Council commissions a study by Mount St Mary's University to study how training affects how successfully people defend themselves with a firearm. They used a firearms training simulator. What did they find?
1. Police are your saviors.
2. If you're not an LEO, you're going to get yourself killed or kill an innocent person if you decide to carry a gun.
That's what they say. My interpretation is different. Basically that if you don't have training and don't practice enough, you'll likely not be able to defend yourself effectively.
The majority of people who participated in the study were people who had never had any training and had either never touched a gun or had done so very rarely.
Some problems with the study. First, sample size. From the actual study:
First, virtually all statistical tests are sensitive to sample size. We had
hoped to obtain a minimum of 35 participants per skill category. However, we failed to
achieve that goal in every group.
In the words of Brian Kenny, how about some Small Sample-Size Theater!
Second, they used Officers from same department that was running the training facility where the study was conducted:
Therefore, we recruited 32 police officers from
Prince George’s County to participate in the
study for a total of 77 respondents
Personally, I think that probably skewed the results in their favor already.
Anyway, it's later than I thought. Here's a link to the actually study doc:
http://www.gunvictimsaction.org/downloads22/FirearmsTrainings _StudyDocument_F_062115.pdf
and a link to the press release:
https://gunvictimsaction.org/press-...ndependent-study-at-police-training-facility/
The gist of it is this: They are pushing for mandatory firearms training which must be renewed bi-annually in order to even handle a gun. As an NRA Instructor, I firmly believe that everyone who uses a gun should have some training, but I'm absolutely against any mandate of said training.
Matt