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There may be no excuse, but your still human. If you handle a firearm enough there is a reasonable chance at some point the universe will conspire against you. You may actually have zero fault, or you may be completely responsible. You do everything in your power to control the situation but sometimes its not enough. I had a friend in highschool who was shot in the back of the head by his brother while they where out duck hunting. Out of my three younger brothers two of them have been shot (same bullet, both brothers) those where not "accidents", they where negligent, someone made a mistake. And I would agree that all ND's are preventable, But that doesn't mean you could actually prevent all of them, why? Because we are human and not infallible. Highly trained and competent people make mistakes. Hopefully less often than untrained incompetent ones.
Are you honestly going to tell me you have never tripped? stumbled? dropped something? Never cut yourself, stubbed your toe? You don't have 100% control over every aspect of your body 100% of the time.
As a Range safety officer you have to have a zero mistake policy, I get that. I would not argue to keep that guy there who just fired a round into the floor at his feet. However no one is perfect. That guy who just fired a round into the floor may have a 100,000 rounds under his belt and have a 50 year perfect safety record (until now) And he is just as shocked as everyone else who is staring at him like he is the biggest idiot on the planet
Are you honestly going to tell me you have never tripped? stumbled? dropped something? Never cut yourself, stubbed your toe? You don't have 100% control over every aspect of your body 100% of the time.
As a Range safety officer you have to have a zero mistake policy, I get that. I would not argue to keep that guy there who just fired a round into the floor at his feet. However no one is perfect. That guy who just fired a round into the floor may have a 100,000 rounds under his belt and have a 50 year perfect safety record (until now) And he is just as shocked as everyone else who is staring at him like he is the biggest idiot on the planet