You guys never compromise
Would you have joined if you'd known how often you would be disarmed?
I was 18 years old WTF did I know then
Probably not much less then I do now.
Some things are worth it even if we don't completely agree.
So if my wife had a handgun in her purse she might get in trouble with the Appleseed instructors?Another example is Appleseed, and da*n it, it sticks in my craw every time I have to tell a shooter when they exit their car to leave any handguns they may have on them there. The facts are, though, that this is a rule of the organization, the shooters will be down on the ground, wiggling into a good prone position, and while down, their holstered pistol is pointing back behind them.... which is where the instructors (us) are walking around, checking positions, etc., and where any bystanders are. Since we never point a firearm at anything we don't want to punch holes in, and since (hopefully!) no one wants to put holes in the instructors, that's the rule. It also may be an insurance thing, but I don't know that for a fact.
And as I said, it still bothers the hell out of me to enforce it, but as an instructor, if I'm going to be down on the ground with the shooters to help teach this or that concept, my pistol (and probably my holster) come off my belt before I do, and if I forget, I'm embarrassed, but I thank the person who told me.
If there is no prone shooting, I see no reason to disarm anyone.
Blessings,
Bill
