Frederick County Deputy Accidentally Shot

[TheFederalistWeasel]

I know, I know... in the immortal words of all the Glock-a-philes, no finger no boom!



http://wjz.com/localstories/local_story_044130037.html


Feb 13, 2004 12:59 pm US/Eastern
Officials say Frederick County sheriff's deputy, Richard Gast, was accidentally shot last night. Authorities say a gun belonging to another deputy went off accidentally as the officers entered a home in Ladd Court with a warrant. Gast was flown to Baltimore's Shock Trauma Center. He was treated and released this morning. The unidentified deputy who fired his weapon is now on paid administrative leave, pending an internal investigation.

 

[Jim K]

My letter to the editor of the Frederick News-Post said "I seem to have heard proponents of gun bans say that "only highly trained police should be allowed to have guns because if people are allowed to have guns they might accidentally shoot someone." Does this mean they will now want to ban guns for police also?"

Maybe it will be published.

Jim

 

[whm1974]

I know, I know... in the immortal words of all the Glock-a-philes, no finger no boom!

Keep the finger off the trigger. Personlly I think most cops should carry revovlers.

Bill Meadows

 

[c_yeager]

Not only should he have kept his finger off the trigger. But, maybe in the future he wont be POINTING HIS GUN AT A BROTHER OFFICER. The bullets only fire in one direction. he had to be pointing his gun at the guy and pulling the trigger for this to happen.

In other words this officer pointed a gun at an innocent man and pulled the trigger. Jail time sounds appropriate.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

In a firearms training course, we were asked if responding officers should expect a gun to be present at the location to which they were responding and if it was believed guns were present, how they should prepare themselves. Debate went back and forth as to whether guns should be expected or not as many events didn't actually seem to warrant such concern, say a missing child. Finally one spoke up. "I have my gun with me. Does that count?" Every time officers arrive on scene, there are guns present. They bring them. So you would hope that since they bring the guns to the situation that they would be highly trained. As noted, that may or may not be the case and even if so, doesn't mean they won't screw up.

I find it horrendous to hear when military groups, police (especially SWAT) do their deal and end up with casualties due to other officers. In some cases, it occurs just prior to incidents (nerves), just after, and sometimes when no bad guys were at home (everything secure, no threat, but some dork had his finger on the trigger).

I am all for highly trained cops. We could use more of them.

As was pointed out in a class I took, "The four rules of gun handling are not just for the range and they are critical for incidents outside the range."

 

[Spot77]

Had this been two friends at a shooting range, the Anti's would BE ALL OVER THIS crying about how we should ban these "assault weapons".