{"id":224574,"date":"2025-11-06T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=224574"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:15:08","slug":"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Kirk of <em>Washington Gun Law<\/em> opened this one by admitting what most of us were thinking: \u201cWe don\u2019t have the intestinal fortitude to sit through Everytown\u2019s new gun training program.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, <a href=\"https:\/\/saf.org\/saf-hires-lee-williams-the-gun-writer-to-lead-investigative-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\">Lee Williams<\/a> \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HT_GunWriter\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\"><em>Gun Writer<\/em> <\/a>himself and chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation\u2019s Investigative Journalism Project \u2014 took the <a href=\"https:\/\/thegunwriter.substack.com\/p\/i-just-took-everytowns-online-firearm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\">hit<\/a> for the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tk6MRC7sf1s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams, a former cop, veteran, and lifelong instructor, signed up for Everytown\u2019s $20 \u201cSmart Guide to Buying a Gun\u201d course to see what the other side was teaching. Spoiler alert: it wasn\u2019t much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was the worst instruction I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/the-dumbest-negligent-discharge-youve-ever-seen\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1252\">ever<\/a> seen,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThe production quality was great, but the instruction? Not any second place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-see-also-s-amp-w-940-review-9mm-j-frame-that-runs-hard\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/smith-wesson-940-review-9mm-revolver\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\">S&amp;W 940 Review: 9mm J Frame That Runs Hard<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of any live-fire lessons, range drills, or basic gun-handling demos, students were told <em>not<\/em> to have firearms anywhere nearby. The instructors \u2014 or, as Williams put it, \u201ckids reading scripts\u201d \u2014 delivered canned lines with zero credentials listed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/the-mil-leo-only-guns-from-your-favorite-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1249\">law enforcement<\/a>, no NRA certs, no competition backgrounds. Just personal anecdotes like, \u201cI grew up with guns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everytown.org\/solutions\/safety-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\">Smart Guide<\/a>\u201d turned out to be anything but. \u201cIt was basically \u2018Don\u2019t buy a gun,\u2019\u201d Williams joked. \u201cIf you do, take it apart, lock it up, hide the clips and the ammo.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Everytown\u2019s messaging was less about training and more about indoctrination \u2014 convincing new shooters that ownership itself is risky, irresponsible, or downright immoral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The claims shared during the course didn\u2019t hold up, either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-see-also-element-helix-gen-2-tracks-like-a-champ\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/element-helix-gen-2-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\">Element Helix Gen 2 Tracks Like A Champ<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One slide warned that owning a <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hunt365-going-the-distance-the-long-range-hunting-course-by-outdoors-solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1250\">gun<\/a> \u201cdoubles your chances of dying by homicide,\u201d and another claimed that firearms in domestic situations make women \u201cfive times more likely to be killed.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams called the stats \u201ccomplete bunk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t want you to have a gun for self-defense,\u201d he said. \u201cThey actually suggested getting a dog instead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the basic four rules of firearm safety \u2014 credited for decades to Col. Jeff Cooper \u2014 were repackaged without acknowledgment.  Everytown simply presented them as its own invention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t mention Cooper, the NRA, or anyone,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThey acted like they came up with them last week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, Williams summed it up perfectly: <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/florida-sheriffs-teach-children-gun-safety-everytown-reacts\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"1251\">Everytown isn\u2019t teaching gun safety<\/a> \u2014 it\u2019s selling fear, dressed up as education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while Kirk might not have the stomach for it, he was right about one thing: sometimes the best lesson about \u201cgun safety\u201d comes from watching what <em>not<\/em> to do.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WashingtonGunLaw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"what-everytown-taught-me-about-gun-safety\" title=\"What Everytown Taught Me About Gun Safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a> ***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No law enforcement, no NRA certs, no competition backgrounds. 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