Training recreational shooters cannot predict whether children will use guns lethally later

Evidence

In another form of comparative exoneration, proponents of the generational program argued that cheerleading and playing softball are more harmful than gun use. Gun violence is a social action inflicted on another person with grave consequences, not a personal injury in an activity of one’s own choosing. Those training children to shoot lethal firearms do not know how the youngsters will use guns later in life. Adam Lanza, who massacred the children in Newtown, was well trained in semiautomatic firearms and often accompanied his mother for sport shooting. He ended up using that gun training in a killing rampage. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1359

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• CANDY: The cheerleading-vs-gun-safety comparative claim is a striking, easily-quoted absurdity.