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My Prayers go out to the family and those involved.

I teach CC and do run every student through weak hand shooting.
Yes there is always risk, but i use a .22 rim fire and the weapon is picked up from the shooting bench.
99.5% of the students have never shot a handgun with the weak hand (the hand the revolver was fired with in the 1860's) and are very unsure they can even hit a target.
We have to teach tactics in our class and to me that is a tactic. If your shooting hand/arm is incapacitated can you continue to protect yourself and your family? Yes we can and what we teach in a CC Class is in so many cases the only formal instruction a person will ever get because it is the minimum standard required by law.
We teach that there is a Moral responsibility to train and training can be done with or without a partner at a range/gravel pit, but it must include the 3 R's
Yes this incident will make me revisit my methods.