My hypothetical wife already had a couple of lessons, and we had planned to go to the range for another lesson after I got off work, but I didn't feel like it because I had pulled a 12-hour shift that night, so I told her to go to the range herself. She said that she didn't feel confident enough to do that because she needed more loading and unloading practice. Right then I should have postponed the lesson but, like I said, I was not in my right mind that day. I told her to bring the gun into the bathroom so I could watch her load it and give her some pointers if needed. She reminded me that I had told her never to load a gun inside the house, but we hadn't been married long enough for her have the good sense to overrule me when I wasn't in my right mind like that. Like they told us in the army, "If the student failed to learn, the instructor failed to teach."
If you re-read my post of December 3, you will see that you have to pull the trigger to manually un-cock a gun that has an external hammer. The trick is to hold the hammer back, then gently ease it forward while you hold the trigger back at the same time. If your thumb slips off the hammer during this process, the gun will likely fire. In Balwin's case, the trigger did not need to be pulled for the gun to fire because he didn't fully cock it, he just pulled the hammer back and released it before it clicked into the cocked position.
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