We’ve put this question to the Armed Intelligentsia before. But I thought I’d raise it again, what with the release of this documentary about Front Sight. ‘Cause it strikes me that a lot of today’s firearms training is edutainment rather than “proper” self-defense training. In other words, it’s security theater with a gun. (E.g., shooting while standing still from an erect stance in a huge line, telling students that they will be searching their home for a bad guy.) Given that the vast majority of defensive gun uses (DGU) don’t involve anything more than firearms presentation by a more-or-less completely untrained citizen, how much instruction does an armed self-defender need, really? Isn’t survival more dependent on genetics than coursework? Sure it can’t hurt. Or can it? [h/t “G” from WA state]