Anyone know who it is?
I'm a novice shooter and watching that video made me question getting formal training. Judging by quick and consistent safety feedback from this group is comforting though. I'm hoping one of the real perks of the group is having solid referrals for safe instruction.
I think it's important that those with handicaps (other than certain mental handicaps and legal blindness) ought to receive defensive firearms training. Someone in a wheel chair like this fellow is probably at a higher risk for muggings than the average individual.
Ideally an instructor would identify the hazards of his range and either offer the handicapped a one on one session (which may not be possible), politely decline his business and refer him to an instructor with better facilities, or find a way to adapt his own facilities to accommodate the customer. None of this is ideal, and it may not make business sense for him. Dead customers also don't make business sense.
Having failed basic foresight, he needs to identify the hazard on the spot and call a ceasefire. Pull the guy off the line and offer him a refund or a private session. I know this is a losing proposition, but, once again, so is having a customer shot.
Why does it seem so obvious to everyone in this thread, but no one seemed bothered in the slightest at that range? I don't get it... are they *all* morons? Very weird that this could actually happen somewhere and no one called B.S. at the time. The ROs seem oblivious to the obvious.
Actually, it's a lot simpler than that, and there are a few options:
1. Have everyone on the line advance at the same rate they can push the wheelchair.
2. Have people move in lines with fewer students at a time, with slower movers grouped togther, etc.
3. Have students do the drill one at a time. It doesn't take that much longer and each can move at his own pace.
4. etc.
My money is on TR.
Sure looks like their infamous range.
No, it just looks like they're too lazy to rake em up. The range at Clark state forestry is usually littered like that, hundreds, maybe thousands of shotgun hulls, it truly is a hazard to walk on.But don't all those empty cases add to the coolness factor??? The way they are spread out almost looks intentional, does to me at least...
Am I wrong to comment how the instructor had all the students turn around in a circle? But yeah, all I could say was 'Ohhh Sh*t!!', when they pushed the guy in the wheel chair and his rounds were flying high left and right-- which would have been a head shot for the two folks in the other lanes. I agree, how the one instructor was;ked over and left his group un supervised while he went to help the other guy.
Good ideas. These should be part of the plan. But if you fail to see it ahead of time, a ceasefire needs to be called and adjustments made.