I guess this is WHY you're supposed to wear protective eye goggles when practice shooting.......
Even if you did blow off a few fingers- at least you'd still have your eyesight--
which brings up another question- how much of an impact can protective eye goggles take- before they break & lodge some plastic in your eye?
You're right as long as you're not shooting steel or something where the bullets is going to fly back and hit you you will be fine 99.9999% of the time.
You're more likely to hurt your hand when the gun blows up as you can see :)