I awoke several times this morning. Why? No reason, I just wake up. I don’t know. I’ve been lounging this morning, just thinking. There’s quite a few things I’ve been thinking about, the most important you can guess. I still have a lingering cough that’s buggering me. My nose is still running just a tiny bit. I’m not depressed. I just am. I want to be happier. I am smiling and I’m most certainly happy when I think of Ms. Sexy X… so I am happy throughout most of my day. I want to live my dream and be perpetually happy, I will be and it’s getting close. I just don’t know when. I’m not complaining, it is what it is. I’m just impatient. Ha.
I do have Sports Center running in the background. On it was none other than Plaxico Burress. It’s reported he used a Glock handgun though I can’t find any confirmations on that. He says he had on black jeans and was carrying it “mexican” a la sans a holster in the front of his pants. As he climbed the stairs the gun slid down his pants and he reached down to stop it and says he must have hit the trigger through his pants and shot his leg. That’s very likely.
So let me review some basic gun safety. Please, ALWAYS use a holster. Some people out there won’t and if you’re comfortable with that… well have at it. KNOW your gun, how it works. Glocks have some safeties but they rely on the user as all safeties do. In this case, all three safeties are deactivated by the trigger pull. NEVER reach down to grab a falling gun no matter what kind. Almost all modern handguns have some sort of good drop safety incorporated in them which makes the chance of an accidental discharge nil when it falls. However, your chances SKYROCKET when you reach down as your finger can get into the only spot (trigger guard) that will cause the gun to fire. Don’t take that chance, take the scratch.
Even if you don’t use a holster or don’t know how it works, trying to catch a falling gun is a newbie mistake and should NOT be practiced. Let it fall, I don’t care if it’s a $50,000 gun, can you buy yourself a new life with that money? I didn’t think so. This has literally cost Burress MILLIONS. That’s one expensive flesh wound. He could have bought a warehouse full of guns for that money. Take the hurt pride and a scratch.
