Not if they know it's empty already.
And that is exactly how "accidents" happen. People 'know' their gun is empty, and kill somebody with that empty gun.
Stop nitpicking a picture to death. Your desperation to smear American patriot Sarah Palin is apparent.
American Patriot? Her husband, Todd, was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party for YEARS. It advocates secession from America. How does that make either one of them patriots?
Once again, you spread false information - I assume, either intentionally, or ignorantly.
It's a fact. It got her in trouble with the McCain campaign people too, not because it wasn't true, but because she thought that they could get away with lying about it despite all the ample evidence to the contrary.
In politics, there's a lot of things you can lie about. You can lie about something you said. You can lie about what you meant when you said something. You can lie about your motivations. But you can't lie about something that's well established by a long line of public records.