Posted on 09/11/2022 6:24:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Play with sound on to hear the terror in mom's voice
I went to our town’s Citizen Police Academy. Our PD has an indoor simulator that’s pretty awesome, and you get a short time on it in CPA.
So I’m getting my turn, and the officer running it hands me the blue painted Glock that has the laser in it so we can do the simulation.
Me: < pulls slide back a little to make sure there’s not a .45 round in there (G21 standard issue weapon for the PD)>
Him: I’ve never seen anyone do that before.
Me: Wait! You’ve just handed me a Glock 21 object that feels like the real thing. It might be blue, but it’s a Glock, OF COURSE I’m going to check it!
And I really, really hope he meant no CPA attendees had ever done that. But I fear he meant everyone.
I wonder if that negligent discharge taught the punk anything?... If he keeps letting that demonically inspired ‘music’ into his head he will not turn out well. The proof is in what it is doing to the black youth of America!
Laz's Rules of Firearms Handling #11: "There are no such things as accidental discharges. There are only negligent discharges."
Now THAT is a man I’d go shooting with. That would be YOU.
Yeah Homie but you know what else is real?
When you shoot through the floor and hit your baby sister who's asleep in her crib on the next floor.
That's pretty real.
Mom was AMPED.
She was all fists and fury. She slapped the BRAKES off that boy.
Good to know, but I'd never have gotten fooled. Laz's Rules of Firearm Handling #8: "Looking inside your chamber is not sufficient to see if a weapon is cleared. You must use your pinky finger and stick it into the chamber to FEEL that it is cleared. "
Interesting stories. Scary, too.
That's Laz's Rule of Firearms Handling #6.
I’ve been saying essentially that for like 25 years. I once got a letter to the editor printed in the AJC explaining why what they were calling accidental was really a negligent discharge. The story involved cop A negligently discharging a shotgun in an evidence closet and injuring cop B, fortunately not too badly. Gwinnett County PD IIRC, but I might not, it has been a while.
Makes sense.
Not to worry. I take firearms seriously. When I put my MP 15-22 in my new safe, I made sure to check if it was loaded before I stored it, EVEN THOUGH I HAD NOT USED IT IN A LONG TIME, AND IT WAS CLEANED AFTERWARD.
I was just putting myself in Homie’s head. He needs at least a month away from any firearms, learning your basic rules in the meantime.
Ah, good point. Sometimes the lighting is bad.
Nah dude my comment was directed at Homie The Clown, not you! :^)
Like tattoos and piercings, it makes it easy to ID the idiots and miscreants in our midst.
I was taught that the gun is always loaded, and you should treat it that way. That you should check the chamber yourself no matter how many before you touched the weapon have checked it. And then, you still treat it like it’s loaded.
Dad had a little problem with that before I was born. One of his friends objected to him pointing a .22 rifle at my mom, and he pointed it at a window, and blew the window out trying to prove it was safe. While objecting that it was only a .22 and not very dangerous. If he’d discharged it, accidentally or not, he could have killed my mom and me. By the time he was teaching me gun safety, he was a lot firmer on the principles.
My dear Lord.
My remembrances of our youth is that my younger brother and I deliberately tried EVERYTHING our parents told us NOT to do, including, “Don’t shove beans up your nose!” For whatever reason, my younger brother simply could not resist that one! ;-)
My pinky is too big to stick in the chamber(that’s what she said). I was fooled once(no DC), now I shove a cleaning rod in it first!
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