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You cannot clean a gun while it’s loaded. The whole “I was cleaning it and it went off” is bs. Unless he was actively firing the pistol in his house there’s zero reason to plop that shit on the couch loaded.
That's exactly what they do, these people are obsessed with the idea that someone is going to break in at night and try to hurt their family.
I had a colleague who invited me to dinner and just casually plopped his pistol on the counter before serving his kids dinner, and explained why it's always loaded and has a round chambered, he worried the intruder would be so high on drugs that a single shot might not stop them, so you need the gun ready to go so you can react fast and hit him several times to take him down. This same explanation was given to me by a few people.
It was out of the kids' reach, holstered, and the safety was on. He has very strict rules that he follows when handling the gun, he was very aware of his gun when he allowed me to handle it, after he unchambered it, and made sure I swept the ground and pointed it at the top of the exterior wall of the house where no neighbors live. I didn't feel unsafe at any moment, but that druggie scenario isn't one I was worried about in our very safe suburban neighborhoods.
I have kids, and I have guns. I'm a leftists who believes an armed minority is harder to oppress. My kids don't know that I have guns and don't have access to them, and won't until they are able to understand why we have them. You can't expect them to just know to be responsible gun owners just because you are.
He loaded his cleaning bullets and started blasting