To: Everyone

[earthborn]

This is Shepard.

It's come to my attention that there's a certain amount of you that have no particular practical experience with firearms, and who might like to change that. Personally I'm of the opinion that it works best if everybody at least knows enough of the basics not to blow your own fingers off, in an emergency.

Besides, knowledge is own reward, wouldn't you say?

So, if anyone's inclined to come down and ding a few targets, show off, or just have a drink and shoot the breeze instead, I'll be making it a regular occasion for the next few weeks to have a little range set up on the Horizon. Look for the big silver spaceship with "Normandy" printed on the side. Can't miss it.

That's all.

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[lackingtalent]

𝒢𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈! 𝑅𝑒𝑔𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝒶𝒷𝓁𝓎, 𝓌𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓂𝑒𝓉, 𝓎𝑒𝓉 𝐼 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒻𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝐼 𝒶𝓂 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇... 𝒾𝒻 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓁𝑒𝒹𝑔𝑒.

𝒲𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝐼 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓁 𝒾𝒹𝑒𝒶 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝑜 𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓂𝓈, 𝐼 𝒾𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝐼'𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑜𝓎𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒. 𝐼'𝓋𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒹𝒾𝒶𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓂𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓌𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓇𝓉, 𝓎𝑒𝓉 𝓃𝒶𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝑒𝓁𝓈𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓍𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝓎 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓁𝑒𝒹𝑔𝑒, 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎, 𝑒𝓍𝓉𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃 𝒾𝓉 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓉...

𝒮𝑜 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝓅𝓇𝓊𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓅𝒶𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓁𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓃𝑔𝑒.

𝒪𝓃𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝐼𝒻 𝐼 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝒶𝓈𝓀. 𝒟𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓃𝓇𝓎 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒?

[earthborn]

Whether or not you specifically will, will depend on a lot of things. But in general? Yes. But I'm always happy to be proven wrong, and in any case, it's always better to be prepared to use a skill, than not to have the option at all.

Beginners included.

Can't say I'll be able to turn you into a sharpshooter overnight... but we can hopefully at least prevent you from accidentally hurting yourself, in a pinch.

[lackingtalent]

𝐼 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒶𝑔𝓇𝑒𝑒. 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝑒𝓁𝓈𝑒, 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒.

𝐼 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝓇𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓇𝓎, 𝓎𝑒𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓁𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒, 𝐼'𝓁𝓁 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒻𝑒𝓈𝓈, 𝐼'𝓂 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝓎 𝒶𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓌𝓈 𝐼 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝒶𝒷𝓇𝓊𝓅𝓉𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝓇𝒸 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝒾𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝓂𝑒!

...𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽, 𝐼 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝒾𝓈𝓉. 𝒴𝑜𝓊'𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝓈𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝑒 𝒷𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓊𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒽, 𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝓁𝓁 𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃? 𝐼 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓃𝑜 𝓌𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓉𝓇𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓁 𝓉𝑜𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝑒𝒻𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓉𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓅𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒.

[earthborn]

Fair enough; if you're too much trouble, I'll cut you loose. But that's my call, not yours. Got it?