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The shooting part of the current requirement just shows you have the ability to control a firearm in a non-defensive environment to the point of being 70% accurate with your weapon. In a defensive situation, the average citizen is going to lose accuracy due to stress, lighting conditions and other environmental concerns. But still, that allows for 30% of their shots to go wherever. So you would expect a situation as referenced to occur at some point.

Now, you shoot the course and qualify. The actual requirement is not far off what is required by the State for annual qualification of peace officers. But, a CHL doesn't have to shoot again for 4-5 years. So, shooting once every 4-5 years isn't going to do the trick either. An instructor can try to drive home the need to continually practice and keep as sharp as possible. That is all you can do. But the State does not require combat training and/or qualification and the once every 4-5 years of shooting can give one a false sense of security.

What is a CHL? It is basically a license from the State of Texas saying you have accomplished traversing their matrix of rules and paperwork, attended a lecture, answered questions about the lecture within a required 70% accuracy, passed a background check (that may or may not have all available information about your criminal and mental past), shot a weapon that you may or may not carry with 70% accuracy at predetermined distances and paid their fee for the right to carry a weapon in public under the restrictions outlined in the law. I do not believe the constitution requires you to have a license to do so but the Courts have upheld that unconstitutional notion so we go along with it.

I see people on the street every day behind the wheel of a motor vehicle that scare me to death. And they are shooting a 3000 pound piece of metal (and other things) past me and within a distance of three feet or so. And they haven't had any training since they got their drivers license.