I am of that school of thought too, look at what happens...I think we all have been cut handling non mopving chain in the shop...it's a right of passage. I know for a fact with teh MS390 that if teh brake is working properly and this is certainly true on all all other modern Husky, Stihl, Echo, etc. As soon as you get a sever kick, that chain will stop in milliseconds. If you have ppe on teh area of your bod that gets hityou prob. won't get hurt that bad, if you don't you will get a good cut or you might get lucky and it won't be bad, but you'll still know it was a close call. That's my feeling. All of this is purely theoretical. And no one wants to test it I'm sure.