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Originally Posted by Joe Williams  Even pros screw up. Carrying a single action pistol with no manual safety with a round in the chamber is an extra risk. Some people have an inflated opinion of their infallibility, and think they will never make a mistake. Maybe they'll get lucky, maybe they'll follow in the footsteps of these professionals. One lost his son when a fellow officer blew his kid's head off, one merely destroyed his own reputation and became a laughing stock. Such things can and do happen with guns with heavy double action triggers or manual safeties, but it's harder to make such egregious errors. Carrying a single action gun with no manual safety chamber loaded just makes it too easy for a split second brain fart to become a tragedy, IMHO. No charges in accidental shooting of Deptford cop's son - NJ.com YouTube - DEA AGENT SHOOTS OWN FOOT |
The VAST majority of airline pilots over their multi-decade careers have never run a jetliner into the ground...even before computers helped out with the flight controls. I would think that the average 727 is a tad more complicated than your run of the mill semiauto pistol. Perhaps they are just getting lucky. Like the overwhelming majority of police officers and agents who carry and handle firearms every day and manage to never kill any innocent people in decades long careers. Lots of lucky ducklings out there.
And that DEA agent is hardly a professional. That seems to be quite obvious to me.