How to Check Before Using a Gun for Safety, Young June

2013.07.17.

Young june Jang

R/W 7(Processing essay)

How to check before using a gun for safety.

These days many people have guns for many reasons. Doing their duties, like being a policeman, a soldier or  a security guard, hunting, practicing self-defense and collecting, but sometimes they don’t realize how dangerous their guns without a safety check.  The safety check is not difficult; it is very easy. It doesn’t need professional skills. If you follow these steps.

          The first step of the safety check is thinking this, ‘ALL GUNS ARE LOADED.’ The accidents that result from not doing  the first step of the safety check account for 80% of all the accidents from guns. That way of thinking is not only the first step but also the final step.

          The second step is muzzle direction.  If  you don’t aim at something, nothing happens. Even when you pull your trigger, Someday in my military age, I prepared a shooting practice and  I did checking a chamber(My gun’s  chamber is empty? ) while I didn’t know that my rifle was loaded  even my rifle’s muzzle aimed at my comrades. When I finished the chamber check, I was frightened because my rifle was really loaded!  When I have been recalling it sometimes, I have been tearing my hair. 

          The third step is ‘DON’T TOCH YOUR TRIGGER BEFORE AIMING AT THE TARGET.’ If you touch or pull your trigger before aiming at the target, you might shoot your friends or your dogs, terribly. Therefore, always keep your finger off the trigger.

          In conclusion, the safety checks are all of these steps. It is very easy but actually many people forget these rules and have had gun accidents. If you keep these rules, the gun will be a useful tool to you.