My Grandfather was a hunter so I was raised in the Gun Culture of the 1950s

 My Youngest Uncle had been shooting guns since he was 4 in the 1920s, my father had been shooting live animals in the forest since he was 6 and his brother (at least since he was 9 or earlier). MY father told a story of this motley crew of boys 4, 6 and 9 going hunting for doves by themselves in the 1920s which if my father was 6 it would be 1922 along the coast of Oregon likely. And when they went for doves they didn't really know what doves looked like so they shot a robin instead and brought it home. Their mother dutifully cooked the robin but there wasn't much meat on a robin and the shotgun pellets of a small gauge shotgun the boys were spitting those out as they tried to eat a little piece of the robin then in 1922.

Obviously this was a different world than the 1950s or especially now.

However, having grown up and given a gun (a .22 rifle was traditional for boys over 8 or 10 years old in the 1950s) simply because there was less of a kick when you shot a bullet on a .22 and it was easier to get used to a small caliber gun and if you were shooting a long rifle .22 bullet it still could carry about 1 mile from where you shot it with a rifle so it was good for learning how to shoot something at a great distance too accurately.

So, guns were just a part of the tools we learned to use growing up.

However, it's like any tool like a chain saw for example. Most people need training to be safe with a chain saw and it's the same thing with any gun or guns you are going to use as a tool.

So, I was taught that guns were tools like a chain saw or a shovel or a rake. And if you aren't trained to use any of these things it's likely you are going to be injured. It's sort of like a car in that if you don't have someone to teach you how to drive you are going to be dangerous 99 times out of 100 on the road to other drivers or yourself.

So, letting people have guns with no training is like giving a Ferrari 300 mph car to a 10 year old to drive with no training. 

In other words "It's a fool's errand to give people guns with no training because that's how people die and have died all along ever since guns were first made."

What I'm saying is that "At least in regard to Training this is a fool's errand and nothing else".