marine corps sniper. he says i was a marine and i don't want a gun in my classroom. thank you very much for being here. in the op-ed you wrote, you talk about the training it took to use a weapon in the military that was similar to the ar-15. tell me a little bit about what it took for you to pick up that weapon. >> sure. a young marine recruit spends hundreds of hours of classroom education, training. you spend time with a rifle without ammunition were weeks before you're even allowed to be near ammunition and near magazines. it's about imparting knowledge in a careful, sustained manner, to use an incredibly lethal weapon. before a marine is allowed to use that weapon out in combat, they'll literally fire thousands if not tens of thousands of