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When I was 9 or 10, I teased my mom about cocking a single shot .22 rifle that happened to be laying in the back seat of a car she borrowed from my young uncle to haul school kids. Later she had my dad check the rifle, which she had carefully placed in a closet. As I watched, he said, "nobody would be that dumb" (a famous saying of his) and promptly shot a hole through the glass window into our garbage can. Even I knew better than to actually cock it let alone pull the trigger.
When I was 16 I shot a dent towards the bottom of my own passenger door with my buddies .22 revolver. I was in the process of preparing to unload it at the time, while he was driving up beside me. I had been duly warned that, at best, it had a hair trigger or none at all.
I think the pilots DA autos that have been discussed are considered somewhat safe as long as the hammer is not back. And for quick use, the DA will fire the first shot with a very deliberate trigger pull. Please correct me.
Still, I'm surprised that a round would be carried in the chamber or especially left stored (stowed) like that. I wouldn't do that, at least as having a loaded round in the chamber in an automobile etc. I'd suffer the consequence of having to laborously slide the action to chamber a round before firing ...like I insist upon when hunting. Would that render the weapon an unreasonable disadvantage in defense use? Maybe.
Wayne: As far as having a pilot lose his sanity and come out of the cabin screaming and rambling for God. Well much better that ...than fly us into the ground. And it's true that the world would be safer without any weapons at all. Cain wouldn't have killed Abel.
Actually, I guess I'm a bit more concerned with the pilots that don't risk the full analysis to be authorized as sane enough to carry a weapon. The only really trusted pilot in any case is a pilot certified to be rational in my book. If they can fly safely, they can also shoot safely. Alternatively, the only difference is in the number of victims. What the heck?
Or, maybe, with more world weapons, that, perhaps foolish, Abel would have been properly armed and we would be talking about the legendary Cain-Abel stand-off to this very day.
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