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echo: guns
to: JOHN PERZ
from: GRANT CUNNINGHAM
date: 1996-07-17 18:10:00
subject: Competent trainers

John Perz wrote about "Competent trainers".
Here's what GRANT CUNNINGHAM thinks:
 JP> It appears that everybody wants to get into the firearms training act.
 JP>         a.      He must be better than just good with his own weapon.
 JP>         b.      He must be possessed of a powerful desire to impart.
 JP>         c.      He must display an adequate command presence, since he
 JP>         d.      He must have "seen the elephant" either in a military
 JP>         e.      He should be reasonably fluent in one language other
 JP> - From the foregoing it is obvious you cannot just whistle up a firearms
 JP> instructor, nor can you create a firearms academy with personnel from
 JP> the employment agency.  Too many people are trying to do this and it is
 JP> not only dishonest, but definitely dangerous.  We have many examples.
I think you missed one: "f. He should not be so atrophied of mind as to 
insist that, in the widely varying dynamics of personal defense, only one 
'approved' technique or one 'approved' piece of equipment will enable the 
student to prevail."
Oooops...it was a Cooper article.  No wonder you didn't see "f".   
-=[ Grant ]=-
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