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This evil moron’s article, modified with only minor changes:

Before I was sent out to speak on behalf of my company, I had to prove an intimate familiarity with public speaking — how it worked, its maximum effective duration, how to introduce and close off topics safely, how to arrange and rearrange my words, how to keep my language clean, address those who jam or stall my progress, keep my destination in sight and deliver my points accurately. So it’s hard for me to fathom how easy it is for almost any civilian to walk out of a public school carrying a new diploma without a clue about so many of these standards.

And where business and government speakers undergo extensive training on how to make the right word decision quickly while under extreme stress, these children receive no such training, contributing to avoidable problems arising from poor decisions and petty disputes. In this context, the totalitarian left’s favorite strategy of union thugs with clubs attacking normal Americans is in no way a solution.

It’s crucial that those in the totalitarian left now bring their voice and experience to the national conversation about reasonable speech reform. As a group, they understand words and appreciate that responsible free speech is an important part of American life — but they also understand that a safe environment is achieved through training and regulation.

My revision to his article is just as sensible as the original. I am a big fan of high-quality formal firearms training - as a polite recommendation, but not as a requirement to exercise a constitutional right. I’m also a certified NRA rifle, shotgun, and pistol instructor. I don’t charge for classes, but those courses gave me the knowledge to make sure I deliver complete instruction, without forgetting to mention anything, when I introduce someone to the shooting sports.

Try to restrict that most important of all our God-given and constitutionally protected individual rights, and we’re going to have a problem. My bet - normal Americans and the thuggish left are going to have a problem, one that gets very ugly.