Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: 2HOW on October 25, 2008, 10:30:06 AM
Title: officer shoots self
Post by: 2HOW on October 25, 2008, 10:30:06 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE3QAeYRk-A
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: tombogan03884 on October 25, 2008, 10:45:15 AM
Have to give they guy credit, he continued and used it as a teaching experience, "I'm a professional and I had an accident, so you see how easily it can happen." (Not sure those were his exact words but that is the point he made to those kids.
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: Pathfinder on October 25, 2008, 01:16:44 PM
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: Fatman on October 25, 2008, 08:54:41 PM
similar line, but unlucky suspect...
http://www.youtube.com/v/5Ez34Kg86AU&hl=en&fs=1
this was used in training as what NOT to do...
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: DesertMarine on October 26, 2008, 01:08:41 PM
Bunch of stupid asses, especially the ones carrying a badge. Supposed to be professionals.
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: deepwater on October 26, 2008, 02:07:21 PM
after seeing him check the gun to make sure it was unloaded, I'm reminded of something a friend once told me. 'never trust a gun, the devil himself loads them when you least expect it' all the more reason to treat it as loaded at ALL times. some people just take longer to learn. :P
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: tombogan03884 on October 26, 2008, 04:45:16 PM
Should have kept his booger hook off the bang switch. ;D
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: PegLeg45 on October 26, 2008, 05:07:09 PM
after seeing him check the gun to make sure it was unloaded, I'm reminded of something a friend once told me. 'never trust a gun, the devil himself loads them when you least expect it' all the more reason to treat it as loaded at ALL times. some people just take longer to learn. :P
+1...AMEN I lost a cousin to an "unloaded" .357 twenty years ago, just a week before he was to leave for Paris Island, S.C. He was shot in the chest at point-blank-range by his best friend with the "unloaded" revolver.
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: Fatman on October 26, 2008, 05:27:41 PM
I have no unloaded firearms in the house, my holster or my car. Even if they're unloaded.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems every 'professional' I know but one is lax on firearm safety. Not sure if it's the macho factor, the over familiarity factor or the show off factor. They never check the firearm before trying to hand it to me, never check it after I check it and hand I to them, cover wide swaths of the room with the barrel, etc.
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: PegLeg45 on October 26, 2008, 05:36:53 PM
I have no unloaded firearms in the house, my holster or my car. Even if they're unloaded.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems every 'professional' I know but one is lax on firearm safety. Not sure if it's the macho factor, the over familiarity factor or the show off factor. They never check the firearm before trying to hand it to me, never check it after I check it and hand I to them, cover wide swaths of the room with the barrel, etc.
In my neck of the woods, it seems to be a distinct "lack of training" factor (whether departmental or officer related).
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: Big Frank on October 26, 2008, 05:55:37 PM
The kids in the first video were scared when the second gun came out. They all knew he was dangerous. I guess the guy in the second video deserves to be gut shot for giving a loaded gun to a toddler. I never saw that one before. In the third video the suspect almost lost his mind, or his brain. So a man, a kid, and a woman all had guns go boom when they shouldn't. Unfortunately it's very common for gun experts to be lax on safety. Two days ago a salesman at a gun store handed me a pistol without checking it. I figured out for myself how to check it. Not an ideal situation when it's something I never saw before. :(
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: TAB on October 26, 2008, 10:42:30 PM
I'll say this for him... atleast he didn't cry and whine like a baby.
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: SwoopSJ on October 26, 2008, 11:55:20 PM
The kids in the first video were scared when the second gun came out.
Yeah, I'll bet the kids in the first few rows had some "evil" brown stains in the undies after seeing that "evil" black rifle. :o
Swoop
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: blackwolfe on October 27, 2008, 02:53:35 PM
A few years ago an officer shot a downed, apprehended suspect twice in the back with a 9mm after a foot chase. The office was standing over him with the suspect on the ground on his belly when he silipped in the snowy, icy conditions. Not sure if he was trying to cuff him or if the suspect struggled or not, but the shooting was unintentional. After an investigation the officer was NOT charged with anything. I wasn't there and don't remember the details, but it always kind of stuck with me. I'm glad the officer was not charged as in this area we have had several charged in officer shootings that i don't think should have been, but this one I always wondered about.
Title: Re: officer shoots self
Post by: Big Frank on October 27, 2008, 09:59:07 PM