So you're at the firing line and a cease fire is called to go down range to inspect targets. Do you personally ensure that every gun on that line is clear before you go down range?
I understand the rules and I don't disagree with them. But it helps to teach them in a way that's practical. If I were a newb and read these posts here, I'd be scared to death to touch a gun.
I work in industrial maintenance. Have you ever heard of Lock Out Tag Out? We have people sitting in offices who don't know the difference between a volt and an amp telling us how to safely lock out a piece of equipment with a plastic bodied lock that a "5 year old girl" could break off. If we followed the advice of the blissninnies, every single employee here would be in a bubble suit in a padded room sleeping for 8 hours because its the only way we could do our jobs safely.
These posts here are teaching an impossible goal. This firearms instructor was negligent. If handling of firearms is so damned dangerous then why don't we just beat them all into plow shares so that no one gets hurt?
I don't know how my wife manages to work in the kitchen with all those guns pointing at here from the basement.
Fight the good fight, my man, but the people have chosen and mantra and reality will never replace the mantra.