There is a hell of a big difference between habitually reaching for the handle of your gun and popping off the thumb break, pulling it out, taking aim, flicking off the safety, and squeezing the trigger. Also one generally needs to feel seriously threatened to leap into violent responses and your average 4 year old with a toy gun doesn't qualify... but then, in the US pretty much every toy gun made these days is made to look very much like a toy. Any parent who lets their kid run around with an convincing facsimile deserves a flogging and any adult or teenager stupid enough to jump out on someone with a plausible facsimile is probably going to find some way to get themselves stupidly killed anyway. Jumping in or out of traffic, chewing on power lines, making toast in the tub, etc.

I said people were quick to 'reach for' not 'draw', I don't think I've ever seen a pistol leave a holster outside of a credible threat. Most holsters and scabbards have retain straps or thumb breaks on them to prevent the weapon falling out and generally retard spur of the moment yanking too.



Yes, it really is. And the thing here is, while I can appreciate anxious concerns about gun safety I would like to think people who don't come from gun cultures might stop to ponder that a country that has all of 2 accidental shooting deaths per million people, and million guns, per year might conceivably imply that people don't yank out their guns and fire them into people every time they get spooked. Most accidental shootings do not involve the persons who most commonly carry guns regularly anyway, they are hunting accidents or people/kids new to weapons or screwing with someone else's. Accidental shootings make up about 2% of US gun fatalities, and 'accident' is broadly defined.