NRA Instructor Shoots Student: What Can We Learn?

This article exposes the myths about the need for handguns in America:

When an NRA safety instructor accidentally shoots a student in one of his classes, is it a teachable moment about guns in America?

But as to guns in the home, we know that for every time they are used in a self-defense shooting, there are four unintentional shootings (as well as seven criminal assaults and eleven attempted or completed suicides). For those who carry guns in public, the benefits are demonstrably not worth the risk. A recent study shows that individuals in actual possession of a gun are over four times more likely to be shot in an assault than persons not in possession of a gun. The research also reveals no evidence that making it easier for people to carry concealed guns reduces crime; indeed, its effect has been to increase aggravated assault.