I could be misremembering.
Stupid because you're sure that eventually the person will discharge the gun while pulling it from their pocket? Aren't many guns designed to be pocket-carried? Like the Beretta Tomcat?
Fair enough. I don't remember how exactly he phrased it.
stupid because any number of circumstances can cause unintentional actuation of the trigger if it’s not properly covered/protected.
When I hear or read ‘pocket carry’ I interpret that as simply sticking a gun in your pocket. Which judging from his post about not even needing to draw and shooting from inside the pocket seems to be what he’s talking about.
There are special clothing items with holsters sewn into the pockets, I have no problems with those, or this little clip type things that secure to a belt loop or waist band and simply get pulled off the weapon once the maximum length of the lanyard has been reached via the draw.
The easy counter to what I’m going to say is ‘just pay attention’ but let’s be real, we all do silly things because sometimes our minds are elsewhere. A ‘silly’ mistake with unprotected trigger can easily go from silly to deadly.
For example I have pockets layers out specifically for certain things.
Spare mag(I do pocket carry my spare) and phone carry permit left pocket along with house keys.
DL, car keys, debit card right pocket.
I do that set up every day, but every once in a while I’ll absent mindedly put my phone or house keys in the wrong pocket.
Now imagine you absent mindedly put house keys in a pocket with a gun. It’s really not that far fetched of a scenario that a key gets into the trigger guard and discharges the weapon while you’re going about your daily life.
