Firearms Blog » Gun Safety http://firearmsblog.com All about Guns Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:31:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Firearms Accidents happen to everybody http://firearmsblog.com/2009/12/02/firearms-accidents-happen-to-everybody/ http://firearmsblog.com/2009/12/02/firearms-accidents-happen-to-everybody/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:08:06 +0000 simon http://firearmsblog.com/?p=60 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Firearms accidents happen to everybody. The gun handling professional in this video is just discussing how not to play with guns when it goes off. It is a Glock 40 and it appears he is speaking in a classroom setting with children present.

This video does not show blood and guts, but demonstrates a lesson to everybody about gun safety. He even appeared to check the chamber and have it verified by another adult present. It still fired into the floor. At least he had it pointed in a safe direction!

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Firearms safety is one of the very practical skills that is so important in modern American life.  Gun Control advocates claim that many accidental shootings would be prevented by banning all guns.  This has been proven not to work, and is an argument for another time.  Increased firearms education would be much more effective at preventing accidental shooting.  Thorough education of all Americans about gun safety would allow for citizens to police each other about gun safety.  When people are educated enough to recognize that their safety is jeopardized by improper gun handling and securing of firearms, they will take actions to change the behavior of the gun handler.

Many people in American Society are scared of guns.  And when you talk to them, it is because they are unfamiliar and uneducated about them.  All they know is that guns can kill people.  This is a very true statement, but the rest of the story is that a gun is just a tool, and it requires human interaction to operate it in order to kill a person.  When this education takes place, and a person operates and understands firearms, outlooks change for the better towards firearms.

Education and communication is the key to convincing gun control believers that education is the answer to the accidental shooting argument.

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