gathert
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Lots of them are, but then there are those that arent as well. Can't lump them all together.
Cop almost loses gun
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Sam1911
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Good grief. Yes every owner or user of firearms needs to be more responsible than this. No, not all of us will be every second of every day, and I'll guarantee every one of us has made MUCH WORSE mistakes at one point or another -- if not with a gun, then with other potentially lethal objects/situations. Life is risky, people are fallible, it happens.
How many cops are there in the US? And one mistakenly drives off with their rifle on the hood? No one died. No one even got hurt. The gun didn't go off. The gun wasn't stolen. No one's rights were trampled. No innocent person slaughtered. Yeah, that deserves a talking-to from the Chief, and maybe a note in a file.
But it is no cause to call for the disarmament of police officers, or castigation of that entire profession for gross irresponsibility. Far more "average joe" gun-owners have lost guns, driven off with guns on hoods, shot at things they shouldn't have, and accidentally discharged their weapons than have police officers. (Stands to reason: There's orders of magnitude more citizen gun owners than police.) We might as well call for OURSELVES to be disarmed for the same faults.
Ranting and raving and casting stones like we're above fault just makes us look like petulant children. Let's let this one go.
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How many cops are there in the US? And one mistakenly drives off with their rifle on the hood? No one died. No one even got hurt. The gun didn't go off. The gun wasn't stolen. No one's rights were trampled. No innocent person slaughtered. Yeah, that deserves a talking-to from the Chief, and maybe a note in a file.
But it is no cause to call for the disarmament of police officers, or castigation of that entire profession for gross irresponsibility. Far more "average joe" gun-owners have lost guns, driven off with guns on hoods, shot at things they shouldn't have, and accidentally discharged their weapons than have police officers. (Stands to reason: There's orders of magnitude more citizen gun owners than police.) We might as well call for OURSELVES to be disarmed for the same faults.
Ranting and raving and casting stones like we're above fault just makes us look like petulant children. Let's let this one go.
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Uh...the barrel?
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