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He upholstered the firearm pointed it at me
Id have to see that. Ive never seen an upholstered firearm. I hape he went with a nice tweed or a seersucker. It would looks silly in chintz.
I'm not sure if no one else got your joke or just didn't care, but I thought it was good. Even though I had to read it twice to get it
Keep up the good work!
As for the main topic, there are loads of horribly unsafe people everywhere, from civillian to military. That being said though, I think some people can go a bit overboard with gun safety. Now I'm not saying you should point guns at people (at least not at ones you don't intend to shoot), and I realize that one slip up can mean some one gets injured or killed, but I've seen some safety courses that get a bit absurd.
I seen a video of a gun review the other day, and the guy was starting off with how to properly check a pistol, it was a Five-Seven for the curious. He pulls the magazine out, racks the slide a dozen times, locks the slide back, looks in the chamber, and then says you have to feel in the chamber too, just to be sure. So he stuck his finger in and felt about. I thought that was a bit..... well, dumb.
If you lock the slide back and look in there and there isn't a round in there then there's no round in there. Sticking your finger in and wiggling it about won't change that. Now if you're blind it's a good tip, otherwise it's pointless. Just pull the mag out, lock the slide back and look the chamber that's all you need to do.
I don't want to mock gun safety by any means, and that was perhaps a bad example, I'm just saying that there's a limit to what is logical and needed and some people get upset over nothing. Now what the police cheif did in the original poster's comment was indeed a bad thing, as are many other mentioned incidents.
I was once squirrel hunting with a friend that was walking in front of me, with a loaded rifle, carrying it with the barrel pointed over his shoulder and right at my head. When I mentioned it he didn't care and mocked me about being a coward or something of the sort. He's a terribly unsafe person, and really shouldn't be allowed to handle weapons.
I agree that overall it is better to be over-safe than under-safe though.