Gun Control & RKBA

I think of shooting at targets or hunting animals for food. You and all your self defense talk makes me feel you think more of humans as targets.

Some humans are legitimate targets, are they not? And in any case, this is Gun Control & RKBA. Target shooting and hunting would actually be off topic here. Statement of Purpose: Discuss gun politics, gun control laws, the Second Amendment, the use of firearms for self-defense, and the use of firearms to commit crime and violence.

Self defense firearms training and firearms Safety instructors are two different things. I won't recommend you take a safety course. As you feel leaving the chamber empty is not a good idea. The O P was about new ideas and that was mine. You don't agree so here we are.

I've already taken a hunter safety course. The issue of carrying a round in the chamber of a handgun being used for self defense was never addressed, of course.

Every self defense class I've taken has recommended a round in the chamber.

I have owned weapons for 60 years and never once though of people as targets.

That seems a very odd thing for you to say, given that earlier in this thread you said:

I have used almost every weapon the army had at my time. I have been on the receiving end of automatic weapons too, so there's that

Were not the weapons you fired while in the Army were either being used in training (to practice shooting at people) or in combat (to actually shoot at people)?