Discussion: Cop Goes To Get Gun From Weapons Room, Shoots Himself In The Leg

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Having had only the most fleeting experience with weapons, I nonetheless cannot conceive how this could happen.

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You mean Negligent Discharge not “accidental” discharge.

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It’s simple. He didn’t have a good leg with a gun to defend him.

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Where was the Good Guy With a Gun - when you really need him to prevent this???

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This is someone who is supposed to be well trained and familiar with the handling of firearms.

Now think about the bullshit that Wayne LaPierre and the NRA have been shoveling; ‘The Only Thing That Stops A Bad Guy With A Gun Is A Good Guy With A Gun’.

Like most things that the NRA suggests, it is a recipe for a clusterfuck.

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Mistook his leg for an unarmed Black man?

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You people are seeing this all wrong. The problem is that he had to go get a gun from a weapons room. If he had had the gun on him, he wouldn’t have had to go get it from a weapons room and wouldn’t have shot himself.

Arm everyone always and this problem would never happen again.

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It sounds to me as if the safety was not on.

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That’s impossible. Everyone knows the safety is on up until you’re preparing to fire.

Right?

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Exactly why I carry my own gun. You just can’t outsource your safety with confidence.

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The gun was being held hostage…

It realized this was the only chance that it had to free itself of a dum-bass.

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how in the world was this one overlooked:

Woman who fatally shot herself in eye was adjusting her bra holster, St. Joseph police say
Aaron Mueller | amuelle1@mlive.com
updated February 18, 2015 at 9:19 AM
Police are still waiting on the full autopsy report.MLive File Photo

ST. JOSEPH, MI – A woman who accidentally shot herself in the eye on New Years Day at her Lake Michigan home was adjusting the handgun in her bra holster, police say.

St. Joseph Public Safety detectives are still waiting on the full autopsy report in the death of Christina Bond, 55, but released the new details to the Kalamazoo Gazette on Wednesday.

“She was having trouble adjusting her bra holster, couldn’t get it to fit the way she wanted it to. She was looking down at it and accidentally discharged the weapon,” said St. Joseph Public Safety Director Mark Clapp.