Hoxviii
Member
OK- here's the deal.
Gal I know is nervous around guns. I've volunteered to have a sit down with her and go over the basics of safety and function of firearms. We did this once, no hardware present- just pictures and descriptions, and she said she really enjoyed it and made her more comfortable with the idea- but not quite comfortable enough to be around the hardware.
Well, she called me up today saying she wants to try paintball to get herself more comfortable with the idea of firearms.
I told her this goes totally against everything a new shooter needs to have impressed upon herself and that everything you learn about real guns can transfer to paintball, but everything you learn from paintball needs to be left behind on the paintball field.
I told her I wouldn't be comfortable with her doing this prior to being exposed to the real thing, while she says she won't be comfortable around the real thing until going through with this.
So question becomes- do I keep pressing, or do I have the opprotunity to still turn this into a safety lesson?
I think it'd be weird champioing muzzle safety one second and then telling her to shoot at the other guy the next.
Or just have her shoot at paper with a paintball gun, but since the ones i have are nothing like a real gun, i feel it would be a lost experience.
If she didn't show a genuine interest in understanding firearms I'd cut it all off right now, but she is showing genuine interest and is learning.
Where do i go from here?
Gal I know is nervous around guns. I've volunteered to have a sit down with her and go over the basics of safety and function of firearms. We did this once, no hardware present- just pictures and descriptions, and she said she really enjoyed it and made her more comfortable with the idea- but not quite comfortable enough to be around the hardware.
Well, she called me up today saying she wants to try paintball to get herself more comfortable with the idea of firearms.
I told her this goes totally against everything a new shooter needs to have impressed upon herself and that everything you learn about real guns can transfer to paintball, but everything you learn from paintball needs to be left behind on the paintball field.
I told her I wouldn't be comfortable with her doing this prior to being exposed to the real thing, while she says she won't be comfortable around the real thing until going through with this.
So question becomes- do I keep pressing, or do I have the opprotunity to still turn this into a safety lesson?
I think it'd be weird champioing muzzle safety one second and then telling her to shoot at the other guy the next.
Or just have her shoot at paper with a paintball gun, but since the ones i have are nothing like a real gun, i feel it would be a lost experience.
If she didn't show a genuine interest in understanding firearms I'd cut it all off right now, but she is showing genuine interest and is learning.
Where do i go from here?