Unsafe gun handling is OUR problem

Please, please, my second amendment supporting brethren:  learn how to carry and handle a firearm safely.

I know and I agree:  The foolishness and carelessness of others should not limit my freedom.  There are a plenty of freedoms that we all enjoy that some people do not handle well - often with tragic consequences.  Hell, people absent-mindedly step off of curbs into traffic.  But we all know the social climate we are dealing with and how any accident, any negligent discharge, will be enthusiastically grabbed and used by others to try to limit our rights, to limit rights to only those they wish to exercise.

Seriously folks - and I didn't need to get certified as a pistol instructor to know this - a handgun should always be carried in a holster that covers the trigger guard in order to avoid negligence like this.  Just imagine the tragic consequences fore this professor and one of his unfortunate students if this negligent discharge had hit someone beside this moron. Dude, you have become the masturbatory fantasy of every Mom Demanding Gun Stuff.

Note, from the article:

"It’s not yet clear what caused the firearm to discharge; Lt. Paul Manning of the Pocatello Police Department told The Daily Beast that the unnamed professor’s handgun was “pocketed, but not holstered” when it went off in class in front of some 20 students in the Physical Science department."

"Pocketed, but not holstered" Never. Ever.

I think it is clear what caused it to discharge.  First, as advanced as they are, modern firearms do not sit in your pocket and go off by themselves.  It is clear he was monkeying with the gun, maybe adjusting its position in his pocket and his finger got into the trigger guard, negligently discharging the firearm.  Put it in a good pocket holster, where it will stay secure and not need adjustment, and then leave it alone unless you need it.

We are still fighting for the right to carry concealed firearms on campuses in many states and were most envious of Idaho when they passed law to allow it.  It is sorely needed.  But even if this negligent incident does not lead to a change in Idaho law, it will be used by every anti-campus-carry organization in other states as a reason to deny that right when legislation is introduced.

Be responsible. Be smart.  Stop doing dumb shit.