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Fangs wrote:Idk about you, but hitting my own leg or foot still seems like a really bad option:

Better my foot than my child's head. I don't have as much of a problem with hurting myself through carelessness as I do with hurting others, or with others' carelessness hurting me.

HKUSP45C wrote:No one has been able to ever explain to my satisfaction how a person goes about cleaning a gun that is loaded.

Define "cleaning." I tend to wipe down blued guns with a lightly oiled rag or gun cloth when they're handled. If it's a gun that's kept loaded, it will be wiped down and carried in the cloth to its storage place while loaded, but I do take extra precautions. (Wipe down the trigger/triggerguard area before chambering, keep clear of that area after chambering, muzzle pointed in a safe direction, safeties engaged if applicable, etc.)

I suppose it's theoretically possible that I could get the cloth hung in the triggerguard and discharge the gun doing that, but unless there's somebody laying on the floor that I'm having to step over, the worst that would happen would be hitting my own leg or foot.