I mean, my dad took me hunting when I was young...
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Learning the manual of arms (procedure of loading, firing, unloading a type of firearm) is a YouTube video away and isn't hard. If you can use a drill, a stapler or a nerf gun you can figure out how to make a gun go bang.
The difficult part is technique that makes the bullets go where you want them to. Shooting fast is easy, just mag dump in a general direction and you'll eventually hit something. Shooting slowly and accurately is way more effective and responsible. Basic marksmanship takes a bit of practice to hone but anyone can do it, including you reading this.
But shooting fast AND accurate is a skill that takes consistent practice to hone and keep. That's what makes competitons like USPSA so challenging
1st time i have so many comments on a post... in an hour@
It's not like they're complex devices to operate. and the internet has tons of resources.
Hand guns are difficult to be accurate with if you've never shot one, and still not easy if you have. Nobody is going to fire one for the first time and be good at it, but within 10-15' the difference is probably just if the shot was lethal or not. Anything with a longer barrel like a shotgun or rifle, as long as you're pointing in the general direction it's as simple as pulling the trigger. The recoil is easier to deal with and it's easier to aim. Loading could take a second to figure out, but that's something that can be worked out before ever pulling the trigger.
I think the fact that most school shootings don't end up with dozens of kills is because it's not super easy to be skilled with all aspects of a firearm, but it's easy enough for quick damage.
It's always blown my mind that school shootings are all relatively low in number compared to what you'd expect from someone with intent to kill as many people as they could.
The deadliest shooting was Virginia Tech; 32 killed, 17 wounded.
That's barely two classrooms full of students.
I've got no experience with guns, but I feel like it's nothing short of a miracle that the shooters are such a poor shot.
Gunshot wounds are surprisingly survivable given swift medical attention. Which astounds my because I know a fair deal about guns, shoot most weeks, and know what various weapons and rounds are capable of.
I'm guessing the shooters are scared shitless and shaking like leaves. I doubt most are as cold blooded and methodical as the Columbine shooters. I'm also guessing the Colorado shooter lost his nerve in a hurry when he saw the consequences of his actions. The vast majority of wounds don't seem to be anything like the Charlie Kirk fountain. In a way they're more horrifying because the victim drops like a puppet with their strings cut, not much blood at first, no drama, just dropped straight down. Somehow that scares me more.
That incident being, in my opinion, the beginning of these shootings. Shit like this simply didn't happen when I was a growing up, 70s through 90s. And civilians had access to the AR platform that whole time.
Funny thing about Virginia Tech, most of his kills were from his .22 pistol, about the last gun we would ever ban. That guy was calmly going for a high score. Again, that seems very atypical. Las Vegas shooter was the same particular brand of batshit insane.
Another shooting that should have been worse was the Aurora movie theater. Dumbass used a tacticool high-capacity mag. No, not the 30-round mag the gun was designed for, it was either a 50 or 100-round. It jammed almost instantly, because of course. LOL, I absolutely support idiot mags like that.
YouTube videos?
The Internet
edit: I'm being snarky but serious. We have invented instant access to information, you can literally go look it up if you're wondering? I'm not being "anti-internet" in any way, I'm just saying times have changed. If you think not knowing how to use a gun is going to stop anyone with access to one and the will to use it, I don't know what to tell you