I saw the video, and gleefully attached it to email forwarded to EVERONE I know, for laughs (thank God no one, but the IDIOT, was hurt), and "for instructional purposes" to show/remind my friends and family what NOT to do with a firearm.
As far as the ridiculous quote from Channel 6 above, WHY should we care about the outing of an 'undercover' agent, when, after the AD (accidental discharge) in a classroom full of FOURTH graders, he SHOULD have been summarily FIRED?
He should NEVER be able to work in law enforcement again, although he could probably get a job as an unarmed security guard, or perhaps, as an armed Deputy at the Fulton County Georgia Sheriff's Department.
Actually, I'm surprised, after TERRORIZING those little kids (ESPECIALLY when, after the AD, he CONTINUED on, and was attempting to demonstrate his "professionalism" with a so-called "assault" rifle! They were yelling "Put it AWAY! Put it AWAY!"), their parents, and teachers, he hasn't been picked up by the Department of Homeland Security.
Personally, I am surprised (or, am I?) to hear that this goofball is a federal agent of any type. When I saw the video, my first thought was that he was some "Barney Fife" (the "professional" PROVED that one "bullet", in the wrong hands, CAN be dangerous!) drug "agent" from some little po-dunk police department.
If he IS, in fact, a Federal "agent", then he must have been trained in the same way that the ATF "agents" that assaulted the men, women, and children at WACO were. Remember the fat-ass "agent" (probably an office-pogue/desk-jockey with a black ninja outfit, body armor, and dangerous - to HIM and those fellow "agents" around him - weapons) who shot HIMSELF while climbing up an "assault" ladder? And the other ATF "agents" there that shot each other accidentally, and then blamed it on the Branch Davidians? Yeah, they were REAL professionals too.
Ways he could have prevented his COMPLETELY preventable "accident":
1. He should have cleared his handgun OUTSIDE, while pointing the muzzle in a safe direction. Or, at least KEPT the loaded handgun in its holster while in the classroom, and ONLY used prevoiously cleared firearms (or maybe even ones with the bolts removed, or otherwise made inoperable) for his demo. And even with those, double-checked and cleared them again, in a safe, prescribed way before the demo.
2. He should have removed the magazine BEFORE locking the slide back and checking the chamber.
3. He should have, after doing #2 above, checked the magazine well and chamber (both visually and with his finger) to ensure it was unloaded. And then, and ONLY then, let his partner VERIFY that it was unloaded.
4. Even AFTER #3 above, he should have kept ASSUMING the weapon was loaded.
5. He should have kept the weapon, at ALL times, pointed in a safe direction, including, not at his foot.
6. He should have kept his trigger finger straight and off the trigger, and OUT of the trigger guard.
7. Keep the safety engaged unless and until you want to fire the weapon. With a Glock, the only external "safety" is on the trigger, so if he had just observed and followed #6 above, the AD probably would not have happened.
This dangerous goofball needs to go, but like one other poster said, political correctness will probably protect him.
They should AT LEAST, take away his gun, put him in a desk job, and start paying him what he is worth...
FITTY CENT an hour.