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Why are Americans who conceal carry so reluctant to use the safety catch?

Woman fatally shoots herself while adjusting bra holster

Published: 7:27PM Thursday February 19, 2015 Source: ONE News
A woman in the United States died after accidentally shooting herself in the face while adjusting her bra holster.

Christina Bond, 55, died on January 2 after the accident at her Lake Michigan home on New Year's Day. The circumstances surrounding her death were revealed today.

"She was having trouble adjusting her bra holster, couldn't get it to fit the way she wanted it to. She was looking down at it and accidentally discharged the weapon," St. Joseph Public Safety Director Mark Clapp told the Kalamazoo Gazette.

Bond had previously served in the US Navy.
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I will never understand this. Presumably she had the gun because she wanted to feel safe. She certainly had a background that would suggest training in responsible and safe firearms handling, yet she shoots herself in the face?

And some people wonder why I am uncomfortable with the idea that someone near me might be secretly carrying a firearm. :eek1:
 

Yup another entry in the big book of "things I don't understand "

the definition of concealed means you don't know they are carry.
 
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That'll be the last time Ill reach around her to unclip that loaded bra,all those years learning how to master that damn clip....
 
If she shot herself in the head it would be one of the invert types, but then you weren't looking at the holster. Was suicide ruled out?
 
Ken posted this on another thread, to show the quick draw. Of course the user shouldn't be so stupid as to shoot herself.

 
SeaBreeze said:
Ken posted this on another thread, to show the quick draw. Of course the user shouldn't be so stupid as to shoot herself.
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Well certainly I hope not to be the one shot. There do seem to be a lot of supposedly well trained individuals (police and military) who turn out to be stupid enough to shoot themselves and others close to them at the time using weapons that they conceal carry.

If they don't know how to handle a firearm with safety, or know but don't do it, what confidence should I have that Joe Blow Public will be any better?
 
Dame Warrigal said:
Well certainly I hope not to be the one shot. There do seem to be a lot of supposedly well trained individuals (police and military) who turn out to be stupid enough to shoot themselves and others close to them at the time using weapons that they conceal carry.

If they don't know how to handle a firearm with safety, or know but don't do it, what confidence should I have that Joe Blow Public will be any better?
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Your confidence isn't needed
 
Dame Warrigal said:
Well certainly I hope not to be the one shot. There do seem to be a lot of supposedly well trained individuals (police and military) who turn out to be stupid enough to shoot themselves and others close to them at the time using weapons that they conceal carry.

If they don't know how to handle a firearm with safety, or know but don't do it, what confidence should I have that Joe Blow Public will be any better?
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I would think you'd have to look at the total number of gun owners and see what the percentage of such accidents are.

I'd be willing to bet that the actual percentage is well within the same range - or probably lower - as auto accidents, home accidents, etc.

It's just that the media latches onto such incidents instead of the more pedestrian ones.
 
Dame Warrigal said:
I've had the odd home accident and car accident but I've survived all of them.
I'm not as sure of surviving a bullet. Colour me paranoid.
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Well, you probably don't carry your car around in your bra, either ...

In 2011, 54,500 people died in their home due to an accident. (source)

In 2011, 10,728 people died from guns. (source)
 

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