Nope, never said they were equivalent. I said with proper training you can learn to shoot the .357 Mag well. If you can't, you probably can't handle the .32 Mag either (or any other number of cartridges). Again, it's ALL ABOUT TRAINING.
You know, the problem with painting yourself into a corner is, theres no way out but to walk on fresh paint and make a mess. To add ridiculous statements on top of the same gets nowhere.
I've taught a lot of people to shoot in my time. One of my favorite guns to teach with, aside from a Smith and Wesson .22 revolver, was a Smith and Wesson model 66 with a 4 inch barrel. It was loaded with mild target loads, and hardly recoils at all. I've had people ranging from 12 year old girls to a 76 year old grandmother shoot it just fine. But...even after handling it fine, if I put .357 loads in it to try to get them familiar with it, everything goes to hell. This includes a 37 year old construction worker who was a veteran of the fighting in Iraq, a 26 year old sheetmetal worker, and a 48 year old ex Montgomery County retired police officer who was used to 9mm in a standard size service weapon. The veteran ex-cop on shooting the full house .357's was a bit rocked and said "Wow, this thing really kicks a bit." Yet he shot perfect scores with a 9mm for the 20 years he was a cop.
For the average human being, about 98 out of a hundred, has a limit to what they can handle in noise and recoil. The much esteemed F.B.I is a prime example. They spent many millions of our tax dollars converting over to the .40 caliber. They wanted more power in the aftermath of the Miami shootout thinking that power will make up for poor tactics. Years later, they spend many more millions of our tax dollars going back to 9mm because they found out that most of their agents can't shoot the .40 worth a tinkers damm. Range qualifying scores went down and stayed down. So now we're paying for them to go back to 9mm. But hey, maybe they didn't get the right training at the F.B.I academy at Quantico Virginia? Maybe the instructors at the F.B.I. academy just needed you there to give them the "proper" training? I would guess the F.B.I. agents coming out of the F.B.I. academy are far more trained than the regular Joe walking into a gun shop and buying a handgun for personal defense, yet they couldn't handle the increase in muzzle flash and recoil of a .40 over a 9mm.
I've been reading The American Rifleman for about 50 years or more. The very first thing I look at is the Armed Citizen page. So typical is the incidents that all kinds of people ranging from grandmothers to teen girls at home, grabbing a gun and shooting an armed intruder with what happened to be around from their deceased husbands old .38 revolver to dad's shotgun in the closet. Most of these people are not gun nuts that practice every weekend. Some have never shot a gun before, or rarely. Yet they managed. Without what you would call proper training. These incidents in the Armed Citizen take place with guns ranging from .22 rifles, to old .38 revolvers, to shotguns.
To insist that if a person can't handle a .357 then they can't handle a .32 is just plain silly to an extreme. But like they say, opinions are like something else everyone has. Hey, some people still believe the moon landing was faked, and theres a Flat Earth Society. Don't go too close to the edge.
That is unless you consider the .32 mag to be nearly the equal of a .357 mag. 