I myself am fairly new with guns and I am going to be taking some handgun courses.
That's good, they can be very valuable.
Problem is, what is being talked about here is some government mandated minimum shooting class.
In Texas, for example, there is already a class required for a concealed permit. A legally blind person could pass the minimum qualifications. I'm not joking, in Wisconsin which has a similar test a legally blind shooter passed the test.
When you talk about a government mandated program you need to understand that it will be developed to be inclusive of wildly varying skill levels.
What do you propose? A 100% passing score in some high end shoot house or simulation? Most police academy graduates couldn't pass 100% of those.
So the reality ends up somewhere in the middle; a training course developed and run by some state agency. You and I both know where that will end up. That will end up with piles of money spent for little benefit.
So then what, would you have the law mandate a week at Gunsite? If so, there will be exemptions added to the law for people who cannot afford to attend Gunsite. Maybe you want your state taxes to pay for it?
You see where this goes anytime you try to legislate things like this?
Look at the DOT and how incredibly complicated the commercial drivers license system is. Yet, we still have truck crashes all the time. Cops still shoot innocent bystanders on occasion even with all their training.
What you are hoping for is some kind of guarantee of 100% safety and you will never get it.
If an armed madman comes through the door I'd rather take my chances in a classroom full of untrained armed law abiding citizens than a room full of unarmed victims.