#435 Call Negligence Negligence and Stop Calling Gun Negligence an Accident

Unrelated image, at least her finger isn't on the trigger...

Off-Duty Cop Accidentally Shoots Roommate In Head While Showing Off New Gun

Let's rewrite that headline properly. Off-Duty Moronic Cop Negligently Shoots Roommate in Head While Showing Off New Gun.

The first thing I learned before I ever picked up a firearm was to never, ever, EVER point a firearm at anything you didn't want dead or to have a hole in it.

This stupid cop skipped that day of training and shot his roommate in the head with his new pistol. The housemate isn't dead so it was likely a grazing hit but that doesn't, in ANY WAY, ameliorate the ridiculously negligent discharge of the firearm.

Cops are supposed to be trained in safely handling deadly weapons and this guy nearly killed his buddy. Stories like this do not engender faith in the law enforcement community.

There is nothing accidental about pulling the trigger on a gun. No wait, there are potential circumstances where an accidental discharge can occur. This wasn't one of them. He was being negligent and nearly killed someone as a result.

No mention if he was put on leave pending the investigation but probably not.

Oh, and if someone wants to show you their new gun, MAKE THEM UNLOAD IT BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. And then go ahead and still treat it like an angry and deadly snake just waiting to kill you when you let your guard down.

Treating a deadly weapon casually is how these avoidable and not-accidental shooting deaths continue to occur. The mom killed by her toddler at Walmart didn't secure her weapon properly and ended up dying by how own child's hand.

Do these morons just leave poisons and knives laying around too?

Rule #435 is
Call Negligence Negligence and Stop Calling Gun Negligence an Accident

#433 Accidents Are Unavoidable, Gun Deaths Aren't Accidents

Police: Woman allegedly kills herself with gun bought to prepare for Ferguson unrest by "accident" because her boyfriend swerved and rear-ended another car after she started waving the gun around in the car (he was worried she was going to shoot him by "accident") and Becca Campbell, 26, inexplicably had her finger on the damned trigger and it was loaded while they were driving home from the gun shop. Yes, that's totally an accident except there are so many places it was just dumb negligence and being irresponsible with a deadly weapon.

Basic IQ tests really aren't too damned much to ask when someone is going to go walking around with something capable of killing instantly. No, this woman did not die instantly, she got to get taken to the hospital and die there. Don't call this a damned accident.

Or maybe it isn't even about being stupid, maybe it's about being too cavalier with a deadly weapon. Did this woman routinely juggle knives?

How can you not take a gun seriously? And I know she didn't take it seriously because she had her idiot finger on the trigger of her new gun when she killed her idiot self with it. Guns DO NOT FIRE unless the trigger is pulled no matter what you have seen in movies. Her own idiot self is the reason she's dead now. A gun is a deadly implement, that's why she bought it, to protect herself from the pending mad riots in Ferguson after Office Shitbag, I mean, Darren Wilson gets acquitted for murdering an unarmed black kid.

Which was also not an accident, that was a cop murder followed up by a cop cover up and then cop over-militarized response. Darren Wilson should be found guilty of murder or manslaughter and be sent to prison, anything less and Ferguson is going to get real, real ugly. Just ask the already deployed National Guard and whatever number of FBI agents in town. None of the deaths are going to be accidents there either.

Rule #433 is Accidents Are Unavoidable, Gun Deaths Aren't Accidents