WalkingWolf
Regular Member
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.
True, while it is very sad the fact is somebody made a mistake that turned out to be fatal. We all make mistakes, I have fallen off of a roof a couple times in my youth, but I survived. Every time I am around a gun I make myself aware that a firearm is unforgiving to mistakes.