Posted on 03/19/2005 7:09:30 AM PST by Mulder
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency was been suspended after video surfaced showing the man shooting himself during a gun safety class in front of a group of Orlando fourth-graders, according to Local 6 News.
An investigation has been launched to determine who leaked the home video of the undercover DEA agent shooting himself at an event sponsored by the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association.
Before the shooting, the agent was videotaped talking about how certain weapons are popular with rap artists.
"This is a Glock 40," the agent said on the tape. "Fifty Cent, Too Short, all of them talk about a Glock 40, OK?," he said. "I'm the only one in this room professional enough that I know of to carry this Glock 40."
Seconds later, the agent shot himself in the foot.
"See how that accident happened, that could happen to you and you could be blown away," the agent said after the shooting.
Experts in the field said that the undercover agent should never have been videotaped because it could put the agent's life at risk, Local 6 News reported.
"It puts a lot of undercover agents in jeopardy if their faces are videotaped," the masked agent told Local 6 News. "His identity is burned. His identity is known as a police officer and its a potential personal safety hazard to himself as well as his family members."
The video of the shooting is posted on several Web sites on the Internet. The video shows the shooting and the agent's face.
Local 6 News did not show the entire video of the shooting because the undercover officer could be identified in some of the shots.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
He's from DEA. They get all "good stuff". He might have been high. More likely he's just stupid.
If he'd left it in the holster, he'd have been fine. As far as not bringing guns into the classroom goes, it would be very difficult to shoot someone who needed shooting, to protect the students, if you didn't have a gun, now wouldn't it? This wasn't even a regular class session, as evidenced by the large number of adults, apparently parents, in the room.
As do the local police... I hope. Many school districts have their own police forces, and hope to hell they are armed since the gang bangers and others who would harm students very likely are.
When was this? There are no classes required for a CCW in PA and hasn't been for quite some time.
Quit being logical!
About 4 years ago. Although not required, a bunch of us decided it would be prudent to take the NRA "Personal Protection Course" and have the certificate on record
Yes but they don't need to carry unstable weapons into schools .
He got the message real quick, and I didn't have to deck him.
Okay. Thanks.
Of course, if you ever did need to use deadly force, the media will try to portray you are a certified killer.
And if I have no training in firearms handling, they'll do worse. It's a sufficiently "can't win" situation that I don't bother thinking about it.
I just try to maintain my proficiency sufficiently that I'm more likely to hit the bad guy than the baby carriage across the street
Yeah. That's why they send him to public schools to execute gun safety demonstrations. This whole thing just boggles the mind. Seems the guy was a walking, ebonics-talking potential safety hazard without the video tape. [cue Miami Vice theme music]
Bump to "it's hard to imagine those fed goons being any more arrogant."
What do you mean unstable?
I am pinging some other Glock owners because they may not know that they have "crazy" guns.
speechless
just cannot make significant comment. blown away.
You parrot the Brady line well. Law abiding citizens don't carry into schools where this is the case. Law breakers will still carry guns into shchools, hence "no guns" isn't the end result, is it?
Teachers and the public are allowed to carry in public schools in my state with a carry permit.
Glock is not the unstable element in this story.
When your facts are correct, perhaps your opinions won't be suspect.
Can't talk now my glocks all ran away as I open the gun safe......hide yer chillins 'n wimmin as they were last seen headed south !
Crazy damn glocks !!
Eeeeek , thanks for smoking out one more gun counter commando for us ! Albeit they probably just saw one on TV based on their comments.
Kind of a point and click kind of thing.
Are you threatening me n00b?
a potential personal safety hazard to himself
The video is mightier than the glock 40...8*@
the more I think about this, especially with the 'trained professional' comments, the more this sounds like a scare em away from guns type of display...
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