Posted on 03/08/2005 2:15:42 PM PST by G32
http://x3.putfile.com/videos/6608573980.wmv
Some safety instruction for our gun owner Freepers.
(he should have used a Sig. Better safety!)
Aside from the fact that this moron should never be allowed to handle a firearm, please tell me this guy is not really a cop.
First thought. It wouldn't have happened if Barney had kept the bullets in his shirt pocket just like Andy told him.
No you couldn't. A gun is only as safe as the nut on the trigger.
At least he just shot himself and not someone else. What a moron. Famous last words: "This gun is unloaded."
Ping for later.
Yes, his "I'm the only one professional enough" remark was hubris, but there are many people I've seen exhibit hubris - some of them standing behind the counter at a range or gun shop with a gun on their hip.
It's a wonderful example of how easy it is for even the well-intentioned to do something stupid - and of the dramatic and irreversible consequences that can follow doing something stupid with a gun.
Anyone here every train a dog? Teach a dog to sit-stay?
It's easy to do it at home or in the classroom. But you haven't taught your dog to sit-stay until he's been proofed. Until you've taught him to sit-stay in the street, and at the park, in the parking lot, and in the food aisle of your local pet store. And until you've taught your dog to stay in the face of distractions - other people, other dogs, even you if you're jumping up and down and shouting like a maniac, if you haven't given him the specific release command.
You need to train yourself in safe firearms handling, and you need to proof yourself in just the same way. You need to develop a specific safe clearing routine - face the safe direction, drop the magazine, eject the chambered round, check the chamber - and you need to practice it exactly the same way, everyplace.
I'm sure the officer in this video had practiced just such a routine in a number of contexts - at the range, at home before cleaning the gun, etc. - but he was in a different context. In a classroom, in front of an audience, and the change in context broke his routine. And he left out a critical step.
Fortunately, the consequences were minor.
But the lesson is important - it's not enough to practice safe handling on the range. You need to practice it enough that it's ingrained into your being, and that you do it automatically, everytime, everywhere, regardless of surroundings or distractions.
I have taught some pretty dumb gun owners.
"Now this next item here, is a BLU-82. I am the only one in here trained to handle it."
HEHEHE
(sarcasm off)
Ping.
Reminds me of the scene in the Three Stooges movie Disorder In The Court, when Curly is holding the gun and says, "See, I told you it wasn't loaded" just before the gun goes off and grazes some bald guy's head.
What an idjit. Every owner with half a brain knows that there is no safety on the Glock (except the one between your ears)
Thats why that cop that is claiming he accidentally shot that kid in the head because the gun went off is full of poop. You don't put your finger inside the trigger guard until you are ready to fire.
People kill....guns don't.
Well said and spot on.
Laughing too hard to respond to that
(S)It would be ok if the bullets were "born gay" bullets.
What an idiot. The average response among the children was probably along the lines, "Well, that wasn't too bad. Maybe I WILL play with guns."
Quote of the week: "I'm the only one professional enough to handle this gun." BANG.
Another stupid line: this gun is not loaded. Should have said, "Even though I've just unloaded this gun...it is STILL loaded. Treat EVERY gun as if it is loaded."
It went around the room, back to her, she dropped it, grabbed for it, hit the trigger, and the shot grazed a kid slightly
I have never owned a glock so I know very little about them. I did fired one several years ago and was not impressed.
I have owned a dozen other semi auto handguns and in 47 years never had one accidentally discharge.
What the deal with glocks?
It also amazes me that any person trained in the use of a firearm with the intent to show it to a classroom full of kids wouldn't make sure there was not a round in the chamber before they ever entered the classroom.
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