Gun Safety Rules

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Originally Posted by Asta Kask

Would we have all the accidents if it was part of Guns skill?

Sure we would.

The vast majority of accidents are either:

1. Critical failures from someone rolling against Guns, or
2. Someone using Guns at default

And many, many, many criminals use Guns at default. Just from a game mechanic perspective, how many criminals do you know that get 200+ hours of practice with guns? Let's say that a typical criminal gets in a gunfight every month (which is actually ridiculously frequent; in reality, it might happen twice a year, even to an inner-city drug dealer). The average gun fight lasts a lot less than a minute, but let's pretend it's a full minute to be even more generous. That still means that it would take said criminal 1,000 years to acquire a single point of Guns. :)

In real life, people with Guns skill have trained in it. They spend several hours at a time on a range, and go back week after week; and if they really care, they work under the tutelage of a trained instructor. Or they grew up with hunting parents, who taught them how to use a gun at a young age, and have been shooting for a few decades. Either way, we're talking about a combination of regular use, long hours of use at a time, and actual training.