You know if he was holding the TEC-9 sideways gangster style, he would not have the problem he had / S
Carol is a woman. This reminds me of the scene from one of the Dirty Harry movies where the police are demonstrating a LAW rocket launcher. Harry snatches his partner from the blast zone behind the weapon just before it is fired.
Giving a complete and clueless woman a fully loaded machine pistol and expecting her to be “safe” with it is the height of irresponsibility.