I would guess that the guy was never around guns before he became a cop. Having grown up in a house full of guns and been taught the basics from the time I could walk, I can’t even imagine doing this. I could take the magazine out, check the chamber 10 times, and I would still probably be mentally unable to force myself to point a gun at my neck and pull the trigger
A friend of mine who lives in the city called the police one morning because a deer wandering through was hit by a car.
The cop put the gun against the deer’s skull at about 4 inches from the concrete. My friend pointed out that he may want to try shooting it at a bit of an angle so when the projectile rebounded off the pavement he wouldn’t catch it in the face or something. The cop ended up calling animal control to finish it off.
“I would guess that the guy was never around guns before he became a cop. Having grown up in a house full of guns and been taught the basics from the time I could walk, I can’t even imagine doing this. I could take the magazine out, check the chamber 10 times, and I would still probably be mentally unable to force myself to point a gun at my neck and pull the trigger..”
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Growing up in the same environment....I know EXACTLY what you mean. Hell.....I get the willies staring down the barrel of a completely unassembled firearm while cleaning it.
I would guess that the guy was never around guns before he became a cop. Having grown up in a house full of guns and been taught the basics from the time I could walk, I can’t even imagine doing this. I could take the magazine out, check the chamber 10 times, and I would still probably be mentally unable to force myself to point a gun at my neck and pull the trigger
Well put.
I remember my first deer hunt with my old man. (I must have been 7 or so and armed with a BB gun!) But alas I swung the barrel around carelessly and had to sit in the car the rest of the day.
IMHO keeping kids away from firearms makes them more dangerous, not less. A youth with proper instruction and even a little training is far safer than a youth who has only been exposed to television and or movies' depictions of firearms. For these deprived individuals, a weapon is a curiosity, a toy, something with few consequences to its use, and there is no respect. In other words, a recipe for tragedy - such as a supposedly trained peace officer shooting himself.
Same here. During my carry permit training we had to dry-fire at the instructor and it gave me big-time heebie-jeebies. I can't imagine what it's like to point it at your own fool self and pull the trigger. We sure do have a lot of soft-headed oafs on our police forces nowadays.
-ccm
EXACTLY!! (What a sad waste.)
I couldn’t agree with you more.
I’m with you. I was 8 when I first shot a 20 gauge. I was 9 when I shot the 22. I was 13 when I went through my first clip of a 9mm. I couldn’t, under any circumstance put an empty gun to my head and pull the trigger. Can’t do it. Period.
“F” n “A”. It’s like some kind of compulsion that prevents my hand from turning towards my body. Keeping the four rules in mind negates tragedy.
if the barral is not attached to anything else, and I look down the chamber one more time, just to be sure, then I will look down the barral to see how clean it is, otherwise, like other posters above, my hand simply will not bend towards any part of my body while there is a firearm in it.