Safety can only be practiced by individuals. I’m also going to touch on gun control here. One person has nearly bled out from something going sideways on our ranch in the last century. He brought his Dad and daughter up for some target practice while I was staying in town for hospice care. This all was just before Christmas. Part of the responsible part is know what your weapon can do. Any question and it may be better to leave the surprise alone. About 40 minutes after they'd picked up the key a string of unfathomable phone calls started. While he was shooting a .38 pistol a decent size wild boar wandered by. It was about 30' away and he aimed, fired and enraged the wounded critter. The boar came after him like a missile. Turning towards the car, running flat out then leaping over small bank into a creek bed. Walking over earlier it was 2 or 3 feet to climb up the edge of dry creek. That was nearby, this bank had an 8 to 10 foot drop. An ankle snapped on landing, in a flash the the pig was on him. Emptying the rest of .38 clip into the beast upset it even more. His Dad emptied a .22 LR into the pig. By now the animal is in blood lust, my friends blood. His daughter, is for a loaded 12 ga shotgun on front seat of car across the creek. She got it and gave the larger weapon to for Grandpa. He starts butt stroking the pig so it will charge him. That will let him take the shot without his son under it being shredded. The pig finally turns and charges as Grandpa reverses and fires. Most of the pellets enter its head and it skids to a stop, gone.
My buddy spent 6 months at a regional intensive care center. They rebuilt his legs. Procedures to move, graft and grow muscle, skin, ligaments and other parts to lower legs and feet. One side had no meat from knee down the other had same but also missing some thigh muscle. It was a bad prognosis beginning with assistance to stand. The team felt it unlikely to walk without support and that was not acceptable.
Now he and his wife play tennis, go surfing, and are able to walk miles. She and I agreed the skull would not to go on their wall. It sits in a brick niche as a reminder to stay safe. Occasionally a visitor asks what put all the wholes in it I reply, “A momentary lapse of control that caused unimaginable pain and recuperation taking 6 months in the hospital.” It was the wrong weapon and he paid a heavy price for not considering the downside.