While a police officer was cleaning a gun, it reportedly discharged causing the officer to accidentally shoot himself and another officer.
The Iowa City police officers had been doing a routine cleaning of their service weapons at the Iowa City Police Department Monday, November 10, 2014, according to a release from the City of Iowa City. The city’s Daily Activity log indicated that at 8:37 two ambulances were sent to their department on Highway 6 East when an officer accidentally fired his weapon., shooting himself and another nearby officer.
Both sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The officers were taken to nearby hospitals, were treated and released.
The NRA is constantly telling us that the American people have nothing to fear from firearms in the hands of good people with the appropriate training.
However how much better trained can you be than an officer of the law?
The facts are that the more guns there are out there the more accidental shootings there will be.
That is not to say that Americans should not own firearms, if they are reasonable people who simply want them for protection, then of course they should have them.
But guns are dangerous and need to be respected as such. They are not accoutrements to somebody's macho lifestyle nor a means of gaining power in order to feel like a bad ass, they are instruments created to take a life.
And as the story above indicates, there is no amount of training, or experience with guns, that makes them completely safe. And anyone who tries to convince you that they are no more dangerous than any other tool you might have laying around your house, does not respect our intelligence, nor the weapons themselves.
Obviously the only training they get is in shooting unarmed black men for no reason.
ReplyDeleteWhat'cha say, Joni?
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DeleteI don't know much about guns, BUT it seems to me that the first thing to do when you're about to clean your weapon is to empty it of bullets, no? I'm reading more and more stories every day of guns going off while being cleaned. Something doesn't add up...
ReplyDeleteIn a video posted to his YouTube page earlier this week, a male open carry enthusiast went on a profanity-laced tirade against the gun control advocacy group Moms Demand Action regarding their efforts to convince supermarket chain Kroger to ban customers from openly carrying firearms in their stores. Robert J. Kinnison, who posts as Raging Rob on YouTube, told the group to “shut the f*ck up” and to “put a d*ck in your mouth,’ among other expletive-filled demands of the group. He also told Moms Demand Action that he would film himself walking in and around a local Kroger with his gun in full view, which he posted on Thursday.
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I grew up with guns. Keep guns away from kids? Sorry, the guns were stored in my bedroom. I was taught to respect them. I was taught how to use them. I was also taught how to take care of them. Anyone stupid enough to a) attempt to clean a loaded gun or b) load a gun while cleaning it, has no right to complain about bleeding from bullet hole(s) afterward. In America, however, the most protected right we have is the right to be stupid. It didn't even require it's own Constitutional Amendment, yet it seems to be well covered by the Second.
ReplyDeleteWere you taught to have a plan for having the gun(s) removed from your access should you become mentally incapable of safely handling a firearm due to reaction to a medication, dementia, Alzheimer's, etc.?
DeleteSurely the "respect" you were taught for weapons included lessons in what to do when confronted by a person incapable of a safely handling a weapon. The Second Amendment means that at ANY moment, you or someone in your family could be shot by a person with dementia. That's because the people that wrote the constitution wanted a well-regulated militia. Lunatics with guns is what we got.
The framing of this in the original story just makes me crazy. "While the officer was cleaning a gun it reportedly discharged . . ."
ReplyDeleteReally?? It just "discharged"? By itself, of course. A more honest way to put it would be : "While the officer was cleaning his unchecked, unloaded gun, he carelessly fired a shot that wounded himself and another officer."
But in wingnut NRA world, guns "discharge", "go off", and "accidently fire". Yet gun owners are supposedly responsible.
That's one of my pet peeves. The gun apparently went BANG! Honest. Would I lie to you?
DeleteYears ago, my son's high school had "career day" where the kid's parents answered questions and demonstrated things. One cop had to go tinkle, so he removed his gun, left it on a radiator, washed his hands when he was done, and went back to the auditorium.
Some whiz kid found the gun, did the right thing, got someone to guard the door and not let anyone enter, while he went to a teacher, who also did the right thing, called the cops and had an incident report done.
The problem is, they get so used to guns, that they act on instinct thinking they know it all and have experienced it all. Yeah, guns are their tools, but they can't take anything for granted.
Tacky "I GET THE GUNS" Palin (Britta got the kid)
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What they need is something that makes it instantly clear that they're "the good guys". I'm thinking of fluorescent green spray tans and purple uniforms with name tags that say "Hi, My name is Ralphie and I'm one of the good guys". I was going to suggest tattoos, but wouldn't want anyone fainting or anything.
ReplyDeleteStories like this are an example that the "good guy" argument makes no sense.