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Guns are deadly. I cannot count the times that I found an "unloaded" gun, both mine and others, that was found to contain a cartridge over the years. People get excited, they forget it was loaded, they get distracted, cartridges can get stuck when unloading. I can tell you stories that will make you cringe.
You know what's interesting? I can count exactly how many times I've experienced this. It's zero. Zero times.
I mean really, imagine making a statement like that as if it's a normal thing for a private citizen of a modern society to say.
So many insecure people too afraid to face the real world without the ability to end human lives in a split second.
I possess target and hunting firearms and have never carried or possessed for self defence from anything. I also have never experienced the safety violations the other commenter has.
Just saying, your assumptions about the reasoning for gun possession are not comprehensive.
You shouldn’t own guns. Clearing the weapon before storage is basic safety. If you are “forgetting” that you left a round in, you don’t have the mental capacity to own a firearm.
Randomly finding out a stored gun is loaded has never happened to me or anyone I know.
Clearly you've never done guns with sleep deprivation or anything other than a range day. There's a reason you're supposed to check every time you pick a gun up.
I’m just going out on the limb here, but I’m feeling you are prior service for the military and probably with a little combat experience. Correct me if wrong though.
Yup. Can't speak for the other guy but the entire reason the rule about always checking exists is because a lot of professions with guns will run you ragged and that's when mistakes happen.
Please stop doing things that create those stories. For your safety and everyone elses.
Start by having someone that actually knows how to handle firearms take them away from you.
People in here responding like you guys just party with guns and alcohol and don't care but obviously you're doing your safety check whenever you pick one up. Don't worry about these guys.
Holy shit you're in this topic defending the idiot that's unable to remember the countless times they forget to unload their guns?
How fucking dumb are you? LMAO!
Probably smarter than you on this one. Over a large enough sample and time period mistakes happen. That's why you check every time. And from their post they obviously understand that.
You continue to be one of the dumbest idiots I've ever talked to if this is what you call smart.
Hey you forgot to kiss me first!
Can you not even partially acknowledge that what he is praising is that this guy is successfully realizing that guns are loaded before handling them. This is exactly the behaviour that would have prevented the shooting in the case being discussed.
U should go trade ur gun for a brain