Quote Originally Posted by dalek
Most of everything we buy today comes with warning lables or cautions, yet we don't see any of these on firearms, such as "this is the safety catch" or "pulling trigger may be hazardous to your health or others", or "please put in a secure cabinet and keep away from children"...
If I had the paperwork that came with my newest rifle on hand I could photocopy for you the pages where all of the above and more are covered. The guide goes over basic safety concepts, safe handling, unloading, loading, and all the safety mechanisms built into the weapon. It also came with a lock that allows me to renter the weapon completely useless to anybody other than the person with the key, when its locked up you can't even put a magazine into the gun or load a single round into the chamber.

As for your idea that most everything but acts of god are preventable that would require for the world and everybody into it to be perfect and that just a realistic expectation at all. Land owners cant spend every single day inspecting all the trees on the border of their land to ensure they aren't a danger to the road next to it. I cannot just say I wont drive because its windy, raining outside, or snowing; life dictates that things have to get done and most employers don't like to hear whine stories from their employees that it was too windy to drive to work and will be quick to inform you that you need to find a new job.

Try this for an idea of an unavoidable accident: I'm driving down the highway in the left hand lane (observing the posted speed limit). Its a split highway with two lanes on either side of a grass median. As I pass a slower car in the right hand lane their front drivers side tire blows out as they run over a tiny but sharp piece of road debris and their car moves over towards me in fractions of a second. I can slam on the brakes at the speed of 65mph and send the car behind me plowing into my rear end and still likely be hit by the car with the blown out tire due to the fact that their speed starts dropping immediately as the rim contacts pavement, I can swerve into the median to avoid them and quite likely loose control as my tires leave the asphalt and likely wind up going into oncoming traffic, hitting a tree, sign or parked state police cruise shooting radar, or I can slam on the gas to try to get out of the way and risk loosing control of the vehicle at higher speeds. Mind you I have to calculate the probabilities of all of these outcomes in less than a second and make commit to my choice in the remaining time and even then my vehicle unless it is a finely tuned performance vehicle may not be physically capable of avoiding the situation.

In the above situation the variable that makes this a hard to avoid situation is that the other driver has to make a choice as well and their choice has to be the right one to fight the wheel and try to bring the vehicle safely off the road, thus in such a situation my options are very bad, all of them carry a very high risk of causing damage to my vehicle, my person and possibly others as well. At that point my fate lies in the hands of the other person to react in the perfect way with exacting precision. Since I can't control them and their decision or reaction speed I have to do the best I can which still will likely end badly.

As for the diseases which you passed off as self-imposed I have only one word: heredity.