I always try to be as safe as I can. Carrying a gun in my pocket is probably not the smartest move.
— Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings of Anderson, Indiana, in remarks made after he accidentally shot a hole into the floor of a local Texas Roadhouse restaurant. Cummings believes the 9 mm gun’s safety disengaged when he placed it in his pocket. “I will not in the future have a round in the chamber,” Cummings said. “It’s just not worth the risk.”

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