Shoot the deer, not the shooter.
Loaded or unloaded, there's no reason to be pointing guns at people that don't need shot.
Every single shootee will say that their gun was pointed in a safe direction.
That has not been my experience in post-oops interviews.
That has not been my experience in post-oops interviews.
We talk to the same class of people. They always tell me how safe they were and that the gun was in a "safe direction".
When I bring up the loaded aspect of firearms, they act like Aspie INGOers. "Eet ain't low-dead!"
Yes, yes, we know. Rather than simply identifying and correcting actual gun handling violations (i.e. pointing them at people who don't need shot), you tend to just blather on about "the loaded aspect of firearms" - as if that was the first or most important thing to consider in safe gun handling.
People wave guns about because they think they are not loaded and cannot hurt anyone. People will use any excuse to rationalize their unsafe behavior just as they use any excuse to drive drunk or to trespass. Ignoring that all guns are always loaded gives a rationalization of unsafe conduct.
By removing the fact that guns are loaded you are encouraging people to be unsafe.