Unfortunately, one can’t really make this claim -
“Civilians in ‘shall issue’ states take intensive formal classes in advance of obtaining a carry permit, and in those classes the majority of the time is spent covering the legal liability, escalation, and justification for the use of deadly force.”
The courses aren’t standardized. They can be good courses, or they can be complete wastes of time. In fact it’s not at all clear that the courses were intended by the legislatures to train anybody about anything. They are routinely put in as a form of backdoor “veto” over licensing. The logic is simple – require attendance at an official course, but then fail to offer the course; voila, nobody can ever qualify for licensing. That’s pretty rare in practice, but it does happen.
Another trick is that the course can be made very expensive, but when the state is criticized for making it impossible for the poorer citizens to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights, it can claim that the license itself isn’t all that expensive. In political circles “poor” is too often a code word for “black.” Any civil right which isn’t for ALL of my fellow Americans isn’t much of a civil right at all.
