Oh yeah, know what your saying Alan.
Had a family ask me to show mum through my various shotguns so that she could find one nice & light enough with little recoil & experience shooting it. Tall order right there.
She wants to shoot snakes around the farm house to protect the 4 small children.

Nice girl but a bit of an air head & there was no way I could figure how she could be taught gun handling that was going to make the snake situation any safer for the little kids.
A fear cranked up situation with the snake would throw all the safety learning out the window & bringing the gun in just doubles up the danger in the heat of the moment.

Obviously I backed away from this one.