We are missing the point here guys(in my way of thinking) as these people have the right to own these guns,then the money was well spent.
That same little old man or lady would have bought that pistol,took it home and put one or more(hell maybe all the shells in backwards) then what good would it have been?
Now I agree that when I took my class there were a lot of older,and younger people there that had no clue of which end of that pistol was the bussiness end.
But before it was all over they had learned a little legal,and gun safety facts,as well as being able to hit a target at ten feet.
I'm scared shitless at the thought of one of those Grey Panthers ,with a charged pistol aimed anywhere in the same general direction I might be standing.
Id rather go up against John Dillenger with a sawed off than a scared GP with a loaded gun!
So if it helps people to own,carry or shoot then it has been time and monnies well spent.
Bob [:D]