WHEN A GUN THAT’S TOO “SAFE” CAN COST A LIFE: Vickie Graves says she tried to shoot intruder, gun wouldn’t go off.

Graves has hated guns ever since her father died from an accidental shooting, but with Holman distracted by the gunfire, she said she pushed him and grabbed a gun her husband kept stashed beside his chair.

“I kept pulling the trigger,” she said. “I was trying to get that gun to go off, and I just couldn’t.”

The gun, as it turned out, had three separate safety mechanisms.

It’s not safe if it won’t work when you need it.