sigh, all the training in the world sometimes just doesn't help

Maverick9 said:

Regardless of training opportunities, experience, avidity, care, the truth is most of 'us' mis-calculate the risk with regard to many things.

Air travel
Handgun use/need
Risks in the home, vs outside the home (specifically Home intrusions, invasions, burglary, vs mugging, car jacking, being in a store that's robbed.

Is there a positive correlation between training and ND or AD? Probably not. Careless people are going to be careless.

People who get a firearm, no training and realize they don't really know how to use it, usually end up locking it up or stashing it in a drawer and it's forgotten, I think. (a guess for the sake of argument).

On the other end, nobody mandates training for nail guns, chainsaws, driving cars, wood chippers and a whole host of pretty dangerous technology.

This was an 'accident' just like those kinds where someone steps off a cliff walking backwards doing a selfie. No need to conflate it.

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CDT COX said:

Very cynical postings in this thread. He was an avid shooter and had a very rare mishap that cost him his life.

His firearm was in his bag and discharged when he threw it over his shoulder(to put the bag on) while exiting his vehicle. Must have been an older revolver or hammer fired semi.
IPSE.

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WalkingWolf said:

That was not originally in the news. But I don't know any modern firearm without a transfer bar safety(revolver), or a safety on hammer fired firearms. It is sad that carelessness cost him his life, but it was careless. An easy mistake to avoid.

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1245A Defender said:

Now that is just a very good design!
Why does he seem so familiar?

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1245A Defender said:

Now that is just a very good design!
Why does he seem so familiar?

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countryclubjoe said:

Would this method of carry be considered " Menacing"..

Is that old curmudgeon aka word-salad in the pic?..

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1245A Defender said:

I did that to illustrate the viability of OC by taping it to your forehead.
Not only that it slides in and out, so its practical and the basis is a tin foil hat!
So that is a pic of me...

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WalkingWolf said:

....We all make mistakes, I have fallen off of a roof a couple times in my youth, but I survived..../QUOTE]

It took you 'a couple of times'??? Maybe I am a fast learner it only took me once...or the dirt is softer where you grew up...


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HPmatt said:

WalkingWolf said:

....We all make mistakes, I have fallen off of a roof a couple times in my youth, but I survived..../QUOTE]

It took you 'a couple of times'??? Maybe I am a fast learner it only took me once...or the dirt is softer where you grew up...


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Well the first time I was being paid to shingle a roof at 18. The contractor insisted that we sheath the roof in freezing rain, and yes I was lucky the ground was soft. Second time was putting up an antenna, and getting caught by gust of wind, I was lucky to hit the porch before the ground. From that point on I will not go on a roof without a harness.

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WalkingWolf said:

HPmatt said:

Well the first time I was being paid to shingle a roof at 18. The contractor insisted that we sheath the roof in freezing rain, and yes I was lucky the ground was soft. Second time was putting up an antenna, and getting caught by gust of wind, I was lucky to hit the porch before the ground. From that point on I will not go on a roof without a harness.

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So I was indeed correct when I stated that you were " hardheaded".. LOL

My Father God rest his soul use to say, "Its not how many times we fall that counts but how many times we keep getting up". I guess every Father used the same quote.

CCJ

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