Posted on 02/22/2009 9:59:43 PM PST by neverdem
Regular readers both here and at my online journal, The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance, know that I have a collection of stories that grows just about every day, tales of official corruption, negligence, stupidity and arrogance I call The "Only Ones" Files.
As I explained a while back in this column, the term derives from a negligent discharge incident involving DEA agent Lee Paige:
"I'm the only one in this room professional enough that I know of to carry this Glock .40," he told a roomful of school kids in an anti-gun/drug lecture, then proceeded to shoot himself in the foot trying to holster the weapon...
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
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I thought Glocks have a triple safety system?
They do. But the 4th and most important one is between your ears.
It’s a big country. We can’t stop all accidental discharges, domestic violence, drunk driving, premature... Well, anyway, there are hundreds of millions of people, including many who don’t want to think about consequences and/or can’t control themselves.
Make our country perfect with respect to various bad things that happen, and you’ll have a very tightly controlled communist country. In other words, utopia is not going to happen.
Promoting old fashioned morality will get us as close as we can get to being happy, safe, and all of that. Social and business interactions were probably about the best that they will ever be for us, as a national populace, during the early 1960s.
Hah! The WOD does have its moments.
That was the funniest youtube video ever.
LOL! Time to cut those fingernails...
They do....meaning if the gun is dropped or slammed down, the internal safety mechanism will not allow the gun to discharge. HOWEVER just like on the Springfield & Kahr, & others, the safety mechanisms are meant to be OVERRIDEN when the trigger is pulled in a shooting position. In other words, you WANT the gun to go off when the trigger is pulled because generally that is to mean you are intentionally shooting at something, hopefully the target. Also you NEVER put your finger on the trigger until or unless you are ready to shoot. Place your finger alongside the barrel of the handgun until ready to shoot NOT ON THE TRIGGER.
So I will guarantee you that the idiot DEA agent Lee Paige had his finger on the trigger as he was then stupidly shoving his handgun into a TIGHT side holster and therefore the gun went off because he pulled the frikkin trigger!!!! Not the gun's fault!!! His "negligent discharge" should have resulted in getting fired as a DEA agent.
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Real gun safety begins at the brain and ends at the fingertip.
"You can't make anything idiot proof because idiots are so ingenious."
If buttercups buzz'd after the bee, If boats were on land, churches on sea, If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows, And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse, If the mamas sold their babies To the gypsies for half a crown; If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down.
It scares me to think we have many Barney Fife types in law enforcement. There is a video online of some dumb woman cop nearly shooting a perp in the head who was already on the ground and handcuffed.
Never underestimate an idiot. They will suprise you in ways that you would never think of. They are really “differntly enabled”. I played an idiot for beta testing software for a bit (the next person that mentions pointers in person to me gets throttled btw) I seem to have a knack for finding cracks and glitches. Idiots can usually find a hole to fall into. Now we can beta test a new political order. God help us.
...and as Seargent Stryker rightly said “Life’s tough...it’s even tougher when your STUPID!”
RIP John Wayne!
Images of Plaxico Burress.
I seem to have a knack for finding cracks and itches...
Awesome.
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