Accidental Discharge - or stupidity?

[Frosty]

I do security as a second job (armed & unarmed depending on the customers needs) It was last year that I jumped thru all the hoops to go armed with the security co., While attending the required company class I noticed a couple of guys that seemed a bit anxious to carry on the job and a couple of us had made comments about their eagerness to carry.
It so happens that one of the guys was working an armed position (he carried the XP in .45) he was taking the elevator up to he sixth floor of the bldg. he was working at ...... then it happened (some call it an accidental discharge I call it stupidity) his weapon discharged thru the wall near the top of the elevator. He stated he was checking to see if he had one in the chamber when his weapon discharged. What really happened is he was practicing his draw from the holster when the gun went BANG, he tried to kill the elevator. Thank god the .45 round went thru the elevator wall up near the top and didn't go into the other elevator next to the one he was in. Needless to say there is one more careless fool in this world that gives the rest of those who do carry safely a bad name. As far as I'm concerned he shouldn't be allowed to carry a gun ever or even a rock for that matter. He has now joined the ranks of the 9.3% unemployed kicking a can down the road. Maybe he can be an elevator repairman or a whopper flopper.

[tombogan03884]

When I was in the Marines it was a standard assumption that 10% of any group would consist of idiots.
Nothing I have seen before or since has lead me to think that percentage is on the high side.
Low if anything.

[Ichiban]

That definitely falls in the category of "negligent discharge."  I think there are very, very few truly "accidental" discharges.

[Solus]

maybe we could let him carry a rock.....as long as it was to big to throw?

[tombogan03884]

 

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[TAB]

That definitely falls in the category of "negligent discharge."  I think there are very, very few truly "accidental" discharges.

When they are accidental, its almost always do to a malfunction of some kind.( I can't think of one that is not of a malfuction of something, but I'm sure there is one)   A example that most people will incounter if they shoot a bunch of 22s.  you will get a slam fire or  the gun go bang when you hit the bolt release or close the slide.  Hammers falling/failing to lock back on wheel guns is another common deal.  Well common by malfuction standards anyways.