And if he'd pulled the trigger, nothing would have happened.
Human error. The mother of all AD's.
True.
Safeties. The mechanical mother of human errors.
Can't always keep that child from doing wrong, but she does have some influence.
Rule no. 1: All guns are always loaded.
Rule no. 2: Never point a gun at anything you don't want to shoot.
That way, if you have an AD, no one gets hurt.
There are some awfully stupid people running around out there with all sorts of guns...including 1911 Colts and their clones and Glocks.
The stupid ones have an AD and hurt themselves or someone else.
The smart ones have an AD and no one gets hurt.
The lucky ones never have an AD.