Accidental shootings
 

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The tragedy is that everyone thinks it won't happen to anyone they know and love.

Everyone needs to realize there's no such thing as an accidental shooting.

A good way to foster such a realization would be an explanation of the above statement which, on it's face, would seem to be self-evidently false.

say what?

Guns do not shoot themselves.

Right..... And just saying that justifies the fact that irresponsible people are allowed to have guns and innocent children kill themselves with that gun.
Guess it makes it all ok because.... Guns don't shoot themselves. 😏

It doesn't have to be all or nothing. There should be a way to minimize the damage guns do to the innocent.

Guns seldom shoot themselves, though sometimes they can go off when accidentally dropped.

Firemen worry about guns in fires because if a round is chambered in a gun, the heat can cause it to shoot with possible deadly effect. That would be an accident.

People do shoot guns without intending to. You can call that 'accidentally.'

A child getting access to a gun without that being intended can be called an accident.

The simple fact is that, minus the presence of the firearm, none of these tragedies would have occured.

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A gun without a trigger guard is a deliberate decision.

A gun not locked in a case or rack is a deliberate choice.

A gun that has a chambered round is a deliberate choice.

All three of these deliberate choices have to be made before there can be an "accidental" shooting.

An accident is a bad thing that happens without intent that it should.

All accidents are preventable.

Trigger lock. A trigger guard is the loop around the trigger into which you place your finger.

And all these deliberate actions and choices don't make an inadvertent discharge into a deliberate action, merely a likely outcome.

Agreed, however, none of those, nor all of those combined, will cause a firearm to discharge. The discharge of the firearm requires the additional action of the firing pin to strike the primer. There are many situations where that "could" happen accidentally. Some are definitely irresponsibility, but not all. Your point of irresponsible gun ownership cannot be understated either.

Theoretically yes, realistically no. It would take an all knowing, all foreseeing individual to prevent all accidents from happening to themselves. Accidents happen so fast you do not have time to think. They can happen when you do not foresee a situation. I KNOW THIS!!!

And I do not argue that.

The attitude that all accidents are preventable is the way to maximize safety, but realistically, things will happen.

Exactly.

Precisely accurate.