A teaching moment?

So I'm watching NFL draft coverage and they keep running a promo for an upcoming episode of DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (how those two things go together is for someone else to explain).

In this promo, Teri Hatcher finds a handgun lying on a coffee table and picks it up with two fingers by the butt of the weapon, as if she were picking up a dirty diaper.

It's my contention that most of the fear of guns people have comes from the fact that those who are afraid of them simply don't know anything about them. What makes a gun dangerous is not its existence, but rather that fact that too many of the people who come into contact with firearms either don't know how to safely handle them, or are dead set on doing something illegal with them.

And picking one up with two fingers by the butt of the weapon is NOT a safe way to handle a firearm.

Rather than show Hatcher prissily picking up a weapon practically shaking with terror at its very existence... couldn't this have been a "teaching moment" instead? What if she'd picked up the weapon like it's supposed to be held, dropped the magazine, racked the slide, cleared the chamber, confirmed it was not loaded and set it back down on the table?

That's the safest thing she could have done. Picking it up like a rotten banana peel taught no one anything, excpet to push the idea that guns are something to be terrified of, no matter the circumstances in which you happen upon one.