Nope, besides civilian training I also have more than 20 years military training. Every smart parent will teach their children firearms safety whether they have firearms in the home or not. That would include taking them to a range and letting them see the power and destructive capability first hand. It's not a one time thing, it has to be enforced over time. I honestly think it should be required in every school.
To give you an idea of how much the public mindset has changed just in my life time. Just before Christmas in 1962, I walked to our local Western Auto Store and bought my dads Christmas gift. I paid cash for a new 20ga shotgun and a box of shells and openly carried it back to our home, keeping the mussel pointed in a safe direction at all times of course and no one said a word. I was 11 years old at the time.
Big deal. I kept a .22 on my gun rack in the school parking lot all through high school. It's great that you are competent with guns, but do you think some guy who never owned a gun before and all he knows about it is what the salesman told him, and what he learned about it in a four hour class is as competent and safe as you are? Give me a break. I would think someone as experienced as you would see how dangerous it is to put all those guns in the hands of all those idiots, and tell them to carry it everywhere.
You're making assumptions you can't back up. Proper use of a firearm is not rocket science. The average individual can learn the basics of safety in a couple of hours. Your problem is you think anyone who doesn't share your opinions are inferior, that ain't the case. Give me the dumbest city slicker you can find and 4 hours at a range and I'll give you a person with all the tools to be a responsible gun owner to include proper care and maintenance.
OK. So explain why it was so important for you to brag about all your experience if their little four hour course gives them about the same thing.
Where did I say it would give them the same thing, I said they would have the tools to be a responsible gun owner. As with any other tool, it takes practice to become and maintain proficiency and that's part of what I'd teach. Are you always this intellectually dishonest?
Well, one of us is being dishonest.
Will that course make them as safe as you claim to be?
Will that course make their judgement as good as you claim yours is?
Will that course make them as accurate as you claim to be?
Will that course make them less likely to accidentally shoot an innocent person and say I don't know why I shot him when asked, like that ride along guy did?
Will that little course stop a bully from being a bully who will pull a gun first, and every chance they get?
There are a lot more, but you get the gist.