While I partially agree with your statement, any training is better than no training. When you get ur car, you are required to get a license before you drive it... it should be the same with guns. Training reduces the amount of insufficient users. Its a numbers game. And yes, most training classes are a joke, and that needs to change. The NRA is basically handing out licenses at this point to anyone who pays them for the right to be an instructor. I support the NRA, so please, no hate mail.
You can not compare driving a car (a privilege) with carrying a gun (a right). It's apples to oranges, plain and simple.
There was also a person on here that quoted me, and continued to say that forced training would require money, and some people can't afford it, therefore stripping them of their second amendment. Number #1 the second amendment uses the term 'well regulated militia' also refered to as "well trained". Secondly, if someone cannot afford the $65 (assuming the fee remains the same as the CCW course, which by law you cannot be charged more for your CCW class than $65, so if you were, like gun world who is charging $200, u should have paid attention to the law.), how can they afford the gun in question, or the ammo to feed it. Its not a right to carry them with u, it is a right to OWN them. Look I'm a firm believer in the 2A, I will die to defend it, but there is NOTHING wrong with training. The 2A actually demands it. Respectfully, my humble opinion.
In 1789 there was no 'formal training' for firearms users. The fact that people had them and used them on a fairly regular basis is how they trained. The founders put no restriction on training as a means of maintaing the 2A, but did realize that if you didn't have the right to 'keep and bear' arms then there is no way you would ever be able to be ready to use it if needed. "Well regulated' had nothing to do with formal training.
My father gave me his old Rossi 38 special. It cost me nothing.
My CCW class cost $60. My finger printing cost $35. My license cost me $100. That's 500 rounds of ammo (at Ammoman's current pricing) that I could have used to stay 'well regulated'.
I can afford the license, or the 'training'. Which do you think is more important?
What does 'keep and bear arms' mean if not the right to carry them?