Never had a gun related accident/incident

[scout26]

Let's see:

9 brother/sisters and their spouses/kids, 35+ cousins (all married except for one who is currently divorced), just about everybody in mine and Mrs Scout's families owns guns/hunts and going back through both family's histories (and some of the extensions) can't find one person killed by a gun, even the four grandfathers, three dads (her mom remarried after her divorce), five uncles, four brothers who are all combat vets.

Mostly oldage/natural causes, with a couple of vehicle accidents. Very few untimely deaths.

 

[KC&97TA]

The only ND's I've experinced have been in a combat zone or on a range, they've all been in the Corps too, no incidents of any family or friends ever haveing a ND. There's something about teaching non-combat arms MOS's to shoot that just scares me and there's always that one on every training detail.

I think the best way to teach a child how dangerous a firearm is, is to do what my old man did to teach my brother and I at a young age; took us out when the Beef Cows were ready to be butchered and pointed his 44 mag at the cows head and we watched a 1800lb animal drop to the deck at the pull of a trigger.

Rule #1 every gun is loaded.

 

[Nick_90]

I have also never known anyone who has been involved in an firearm accident or incident although firearms are very common over here in Switzerland.
The only incident I have heard of happened in London (GB) around 1910. My grandmother's elder sister who was very pretty and knew it drove a young man so nuts he turned up one day at my great grandparents' groceries shop with a loaded revolver and threatened to shoot himself! Luckily my great grandfather talked him out of doing so...

 

[grizz5675]

I think being safe with guns has to start with educating kids not to touch them period.Some people dont want their kids to even see a gun and thats the wrong way about it.They have to know what a real gun looks like and what it can do and to stay the hell away from them.I or any of my family have not had an accident to this day but a freind of mine while in the military cleaned his 45acp ,when he was done he inspected it and tossed it on the table and was about to sat there im done and it went off and shot his wife in the chest,she survived but he was a basket case anyway it just go's to say you can never be to careful.