can ask of the "apologists" that are saying "well, in the big picture it's nothing", is how many times is it "OK" for a delivery room nurse to drop a baby, or how many times would they accept a mechanics excuse that "I only screw up a repair job every once in a while. Too bad it was yours, but TS, it's within the margin of error."
wait...that's exactly what we are talking about.
Nurses DO drop babies, doctors DO botch up procedures, and only the absolute worse ones, where doctors knowingly take shortcuts, work drunk, or whatever actually become malpractice cases...and then only if the patient learns of it.
Snip a little too far, cutting a nerve making a leg unusable, well, that's just a risk you take with any surgery.
Now, onto guns. I wonder how many of these are "I ordered 50 different guns from vendor X for my gunshop, when UPS showed up, and we received the product into inventory over the next few days, it turns out we only got 48!
I work in logistics for an electronics chain, one of the biggest 2 sources of losss before it gets on the floor (where shoplifting is the biggest source...which I don't think happens at many gunstores) is #1 we break it moving it around, #2 Vendor said they sent us 100, but the truck only had 96.
we try and catch #2 before it enters our inventory, but we don't always succeed. Sometimes people are in a hurry, and after having all their other paperwork so far that day match quantity claimed with quantity received, they just okay it quick without a careful count.
We had it for a while where we were getting rush shipped some laptops pretty much a thousand a week from oversees, so it was coming into minneapolis international airport. They would come in pallets of 100, 25 per layer standing on end, 4 layers, covered in shrinkwrap, banding, cornercards, international flight labeling, etc.
Except that frquently in the middle of the pallet we would find boxes that were opened and the merchandise pulled out.
It got so bad that we now institute a policy of every single laptop unit is restacked onto pallets we have in house, specially colored to indicate they are ours, so we can catch the empty boxes before we put them into inventory.
If an international package going through an airport where we are supposed to have 9-11 type security is being stolen, how hard is it for the UPS guy who comes and picks the guns up at the manufacturers to 'loose' a few for the right price?