With all due respect, it’s a semi-automatic and it’s a tool just like any other tool. Learn to use it and respect it, just like you would any other tool.
My husband and I were NRA certified in pistol and rifle (we let the certs slip, although we still teach). If someone is shot in a gun safety class, then it was not being taught correctly. No live ammo in the room. We use cute pink and blue replicas for the gun handling part. Even with the fake guns we demand the safety rules be followed — particularly KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER and DON’T POINT THE MUZZLE AT ANYONE OR ANYTHING YOU DON’T WANT TO DESTROY. If you can’t follow the rules with a fake gun - we ain’t letting ya shoot a real one. At least, not around us.
Someone one got really sloppy.
Geez... Can you people read??
I CLEARLY stated that it was a PERSONAL PREFERENCE
I respect the hell out of it- enough to know I am too stupid to have one- they scare the hell out of me
Revolvers I am fine with
Clearly. But I will reiterate what ie said on a number of gun safety threads: The key to never having a gun accident is to assume that you are still capable of one. One of the things that ticks me off about some gun folk is that they get cocky. Especially after years and years of safely handling firearms, folks have a tendency to believe that it can't happen to them. They're too careful. Their safe practices are too ingrained. Only somebody that's "stupid" can have an accident. To me... That's a dangerous attitude. Once you think yourself incapable of a mistake you're well along the road to finding out how wrong you are. The rules of gun handling are there because we're -all- capable of mistakes. That's why there's more than one rule, and you have to violate all of them at the same time to hurt somebody.