Help me out here fellow gun people.
For those of you who keep a round chambered, are you mentally ill? Why don't you just leave your gun unchambered, thereby making your gun as harmless as a rock?
This is the only thing I will call fellow pro gun people out on because I really think that everyone who keeps a round in the chamber is a FOOL and a detriment to pro gun people everywhere. Your FOOLISH, MORONIC, IDIOTIC behavior is ruining it for the rest of us. If you didn't keep a round in the chamber then you would eliminate 99.9% of these accidental shootings and silence the largest source of the gun-hating media's sources that are used against us.
A small child cannot chamber a round in practically every gun in existence, but could probably figure out how to work the safety in most guns.
How old do you think a kid would need to be to jack a shotgun shell into the chamber? 5? Older maybe? Now how old do you think they would have to be to flip the safety off and pull a trigger? 2? I wouldn't be surprised if my 1 year old could figure it out given enough time. A gun with a round in the chamber is infinitely more dangerous than a gun without a round in the chamber as far as accidental discharge is concerned. A gun without a round in the chamber simply cannot discharge!
"But... but... what if there's a bad guy and you don't have enough time to chamber a round". You are an idiot if you believe this. Chambering a round takes half a second. Hopefully you spend more than half a second deciding whether or not you should pull the trigger on another human being. This isn't the wild west where you are doing a quick draw contest or something. You can chamber a round in the same action it takes to draw your weapon. It literally wouldn't hinder your ability to get your gun on target and pull the trigger whatsoever.
Downvote me all you want but to everyone else who likes guns and wants us to keep our rights needs to know that all of these accidents are caused the pro "chambered-round people" which lead to headlines like these and make it harder for the rest of us to make our pro-gun case. I know there is going to be someone who reads this who gets really mad at me because they think that they need to keep a round in the chamber on their conceal carry weapon or the weapon they keep by their bed because they "won't have time to chamber a round", but I urge them to rethink their position.
Sorry for the rage but every time I see an article like this it makes me so angry. 1, because an innocent child had to die, and 2, because it's SO EASILY preventable by simply keeping a round out of the chamber.
(Revolver safety aside as that is a completely different safety debate)