03-23-2021, 07:41 AM
(03-22-2021, 07:48 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Dear god, the two of you know some real clowns when it comes to firearm safety. First off, and apologies if this comes off as pedantic, but the correct term is negligent discharge. Discharges caused by negligent handling are not accidents. An accidental discharge would be a cook off (which will rarely happen in the civilian world), a mechanical failure (which are exceedingly rare but do happen, see the Remington 700 recall), or a delayed primer ignition. There are obviously several rules when handling firearms, but to me the most important ones are treat every firearm as if it's loaded at all times, always keep your finger off the trigger until the moment before discharging the weapon, and never point a firearm at something you don't intend to shoot (while making sure that target is safe to shoot). Seems to me that everyone in your examples, with the exception of Nati's bizarre Corps squad mate, violated all or several of these. As to him, I'm surprised they didn't reassign him to something in which his ability to cause havoc was limited, like cook or logistics.
Not to be even more pedantic, but I wouldn't consider a delayed primer ignition an accidental discharge. Rather, I would call it a hangfire.
But yeah, I have to agree with all of this. I have had the "accidental" discussion with quite a few people. It applies to firearms and auto collisions. The vast majority of incidents in both are due to human error, which means it wasn't an accident. An accident implies it could not have been prevented.
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