I once rode my motorcycle at (clock speed) of 210 mph on a German autobahn, which is as fast as Formula 1 cars go, and passed 2 police cars while doing it too. They weren't too concerned. It was a good road though, I imagine nothing like Afghanistan, but then I also doubt that the cars are capable of that speed.
You're right on the ball about the road being different. It is a windy, two-lane highway (undivided) with a deep gorge off to one side. Many of the accidents seem to be caused by people trying to pass slow-moving trucks.
It is plausible, however, that the accident rate would be much higher if no training was required. In this case, mandatory training is a success, in that it has reduced the accident rate. It hasn't necessarily been a success, no, but it hasn't necessarily been a failure either. Without data on the accident rate if training were not required, we can't say. And in the absence of any conclusion here, we can't really use it to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of CCW training.That's not what I said (since I made the original comment), I said driving has mandatory training, and yet road traffic accidents are the largest single cause of accidental death in the US. Showing if nothing else that mandatory training for driving has not necessarily been a glowing success, we don't know (we can all have an opinion, but it will be purely anecdotal) how bad or better accident rates would be if there was no mandatory training, so it's moot. If it were then I'd expect that newly licensed drivers would have the lowest insurance rates, since they have yet to learn any bad habits, this is not the case in my experience.
I also disagree with your conclusions based on insurance rates. Would you believe that an experienced shooter is less accurate than an inexperienced shooter straight out of a class? As with driving, the experienced shooter has had more time to pick up bad habits.
Yes, I don't disagree with you here. That's because this is a much better argument.One other point while driving may be an unenumerated right under the 9th, owning firearms is enumerated, and not open to interpretation. Thus requiring mandatory training is an infringement of that right. Responsible people understand that the drawbacks of rights, are the responsibilities that come along with those rights. Those responsibilities with firearms are if you use your firearm in self defense do not hit any non-targets. There are laws that enforce penalties if you fail to live up to these responsibilities.