No, it was an "accidental discharge"...of not necessarily a bullet.
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:03 PM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > On December 3, 2018 at 5:26 PM "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > > I have noticed it seems many police officers fall way short of proper > use and safety involving firearms. > > It's just like hunters. The ones who merely go through a hunter safety > course because it's required, or the cops who only know about guns what was > force fed to them at the range, aren't all that competent with firearms. > The cops who know how to properly handle firearms already knew before they > became cops. > > A woman I went to high school with, her teenage son killed her husband. > They'd been hunting and the kid was unloading his gun. How in the world do > you point a gun at your dad's chest, especially when manipulating that > gun's controls? If I had pointed a toy gun at my dad at half that kid's > age, I would have lost access to it for at least a month. > > If you're raised like I was, you just don't allow the dangerous end of a > firearm to sweep over other people unless you think they might need to be > dead. That's the 'gun culture' that some people in this country are > determined to get rid of. > > Some LEOs (a clear majority in major cities), are as safe with a gun in > public as I'd be if you gave me a two day familiarization course with > elephants and asked me to drive one through town. These are guys who didn't > even have BB guns when they were kids, and it's hard to get them to the > point where doing it right is an ingrained response. > > That cop from Wyoming in the Youtube video I linked, he seemed to have the > basics down, I can't fault the way he handled his sidearm in front of the > news camera, but he bought a dangerously stupid piece of equipment that > didn't protect the trigger, and then he grabbed his gun through the fabric > of his pants and pulled up on the trigger. Boom, negligent discharge, > here's your citation for disorderly conduct and public endangerment. Your > Lee Paige Achievement Certificate will come in the mail later. (or, since > he wasn't using a proper holster, should we give him a Plaxico Burress > Award?) > > The dancing FBI agent who was mentioned in passing in that video, his > holster didn't have sufficient retention to hold the gun securely while > doing a backflip. That's a problem, but the real problem was the moron who, > upon seeing that his holster dumped his gun on the floor, grabbed it and > pulled the trigger. He didn't make the common mistake of grabbing a dropped > gun in midair, but the end result was the same. I think he was rushing to > get it out of sight before anybody noticed he dropped it. > Mitch. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
