I wish they stated the type of gun.
My guess is Glock.
Kinda stupid incompetence like the security guard who missed hitting the gunman at Houston airport
Why have them if they cannot control their weapons
“Only police and military should be trusted with guns”
/leftspeak
So the kid on the short bus “touched” the trigger huh? Are they sure it just didn’t “go off”?
Stupidest article I’ve read all day....
It was no accident, and I also find it hard to believe it happened as reported.
Unless the cop had already drawn the gun, I don’t see how anyone else could pull the trigger.
Wonder if it was a female officer.
Most LE holsters don’t leave the trigger exposed, and that’s a really good idea with no safety.
What holster allows a finger to be inserted and pull a trigger?
A waistline holster that uses static tension to hold the gun?
This guy wasn’t uniform and wearing a real holster?
Have you ever seen a holster for a pistol that leaves the trigger exposed? I haven’t!
Well, once there was this school trip to Austin and this chick Elizabeth..
Never mind.
I do not understand this.
Firstly, I do not ever keep a round in the chamber. Maybe that’s not a good policy for cops, but to me it’s an accident waiting to happen.
Secondly, my auto pistol, which is a Springfield .40 cal, has two safeties where the gun must be held in the hand thus pressing a plate on the backside of the handle, and the trigger finger must also depress a switch in the trigger before any pulling of the trigger can cause the hammer to hit the firing pin.
I call bovine excrement...no quality holster that an LEO should be wearing would allow for that.
Cops there have holsters that expose the trigger? That’s just nuts. Or there is a bit more to the story.
Impossible as stated, no LEO duty holster would permit access to the trigger.
“The officer had been dispatched to the bus to calm down the student.”
Cop sits next to student, pulls out gun.
“See this gun, Johnny? I’m given this to keep order. Only people like me can handle weapons like this.”
“Golly, gee, what does THIS do?”
BANG
Ping for later
So, the headline is factually incorrect. The weapon didn't "accidentally discharge"; a person accidentally PULLED THE FREAKING TRIGGER of the weapon. Why would anyone wear a holster that allows the trigger to be pulled on a holstered handgun?
There's got to be a lot more to this.
Mark
How far along does a disturbance on a ‘Special needs bus’ go before an ARMED POLICEMAN is involved?
We have put ourselves in a position these days where most ‘situations’ that were solved by a stern voice, or a ruler are now ending up with police being called and in a lot of cases teens and pre-teens end up being ‘perp walked’, if not in cuffs.
On the other hand, these laws are being passed by those of us that ‘lived’ during the ‘Corporal Punishment’ days or at least the children of those people.
Those of us that said the ‘coddling’ of the dissident students and draft dodgers and resisters of the 60’s would come back to haunt us etc - Guess we knew all along but were definitely outnumbered.
My ex wife -just a few years younger - has absolutely NO PROBLEM with the no dodge ball, no score keeping, garbage that is being pushed down our throats. (At least I can say my daughters are on ‘my side’ on this one (AND agree with me on MANY things they had absolutely no idea they would end up supporting))
And she is one of the first that will say “I don’t see why those kids are such spoiled brats” but will also be the first to say ‘YOU can’t do that’ when you are disciplining the ‘spoiled brats’ VERBALLY or leaning toward physically.
The guard is wearing an improper holster, if it allows someone to put their finger in and fire the gun, holstered.