The number of military people who don’t understand firearm safety is amazing. I’ve got a buddy in the navy and one time we were hanging out and drinking. He wanted to show off his gun and everyone around just told him to stop, put his gun somewhere else safe and that he could have it back when he was sober. Why he needed a bunch of civilians to tell him that I don’t know.
Complacency kills, accidents can and do happen at any experience level. In fact I’d argue they may happen more with those who have grown too comfortable with firearms, usually the newbies are appropriatly cautious. I’d be real interested to see some data on that but idt anyone is compiling it.
If I had my guess as to “why,” your buddy sounds like he falls into this trap (at least when drunk, which tends to exacerbate feelings of “Ah shut up I know what I’m doing.” Lol) Hopefully he’s better about it these days!
The number of military people who don’t understand firearm safety is amazing. I’ve got a buddy in the navy and one time we were hanging out and drinking. He wanted to show off his gun and everyone around just told him to stop, put his gun somewhere else safe and that he could have it back when he was sober. Why he needed a bunch of civilians to tell him that I don’t know.
Complacency kills, accidents can and do happen at any experience level. In fact I’d argue they may happen more with those who have grown too comfortable with firearms, usually the newbies are appropriatly cautious. I’d be real interested to see some data on that but idt anyone is compiling it.
If I had my guess as to “why,” your buddy sounds like he falls into this trap (at least when drunk, which tends to exacerbate feelings of “Ah shut up I know what I’m doing.” Lol) Hopefully he’s better about it these days!