Posted on 02/28/2017 10:41:38 AM PST by NRx
Paris (CNN)A weapon was fired as French President François Hollande was giving a speech in western France Tuesday, the mayor of Villognon told CNN. Hollande was not injured, but another man was, Mayor Claude Guitton said. According to CNN affiliate BFM-TV, a local police officer aiding in the security detail for the President's visit accidentally discharged his weapon. The officer is a sniper and was positioned on top of a building, the Prefet of Charente Pierre N'Gahane told BFM-TV.
The President was speaking at the inauguration of a high-speed train line when the gun went off. Video on the French presidential Élysée website showed Hollande speaking, and then a gunshot is heard.
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Sorry for the short excerpt. It seems CNN auto limits copy and paste to much less than we do and I didn’t catch it.
Somebody trying to hurry the election of BHO as president of France?
Unless the weapon had a mechanical defect, this was a negligent discharge, not an accident. I recommend that you correct the clarification to the headline.
Not to worry, the sad schlemiel who was the shooter can always get a job with the Oscar awards as an envelope handler.
TWB
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Career limiting move...
“Unless the weapon had a mechanical defect, this was a negligent discharge, not an accident”
That’s the trendy tacticool term, but it’s the same thing.
Video on the French presidential Élysée website showed Hollande speaking, and then a gunshot is heard.
He said “I hope it is nothing serious,” he said. “I don’t think so.”.
That’s kinda Rico Suave cool there. An American president would be swarmed by 20 hut huts and zoomed away at 80 mph.
Besides, I bet it wasn’t an accident. It was a moslem sniper on a roof, or Carlos the Jackal or something. And some Liam Neeson or Chuck Norris type on the roof had a death match karate fight. The weapon discharged in the struggle.
And the press was told not to worry about it.
I bet the NSA has it all on satellite feed.
It isn't the same thing nor is it "tacticool." Accidents occur due to unforseen circumstances or are unplanned consequences of an action.
This was negligence on the part of someone who has been trained to handle firearms. The first rule of firearms training is always treat your weapon as if it is loaded. This policeman is responsible for every round he fired. He, through inattention or failing to follow procedures unintentionally fired a round. That is negligence.
If he mistakenly shot someone through an error (wrong target, misidentified target, etc...), that could be an accident.
If you have any further questions consult your nearest Army Drill Sergeant, Marine Drill Instructor, or NRA Certified Firearms instructor.
Not the same thing. There just isn’t a good concise way in English to differentiate between
“There was a rare mechanical malfunction that resulted in firing a shot despite operator’s attempts to not do so”
vs
“Operator performed an irresponsible action resulting in the unintentional shot for which he is absolutely responsible for”.
It’s the difference between your wheel fell off on the freeway vs you were texting - both of which resulted in a crash.
I know, I know. It’s the latest term for unintentional discharge. And it shows you are hip and up to date. We all miss Col. Cooper.
Tacticool is fun. Like when they started calling special forces guys “operators”. My mom was an operator back in the 40s.
Negligent is a more stern way of saying accidental. It is always delivered from behind this years hottest Oakley glasses and a web belt that can be used for rappelling.
New terms for old concepts, that’s all it is. Like some police departments stopped taking reports for auto accidents. Now they take “crash reports”. It’s not an “accident”, get it?
Potato, potahhhto.
It’s no different than Negro becoming colored, colored becoming black, black becoming African-American, and African-American becoming people of color.
Negligent is a way they can say it’s your fault.
In the past, accidental meant the same thing, that the man messed up. If there was a mechanical issue, people would say that thing.
But then the 80s happened and everyone started reaching up from underneath their pistol and pinching the muzzle end to check for a round in the chamber, fanning single action revolvers with the off thumb like a goober, and doing all sorts of odd things. The terms change, but this modern terminology did nothing new for us.
Its like how every generation is certain that they are the first to discover sex.
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