Parks Ranger Accidentally Fires Gun in Apartment

[Tinpig]

I've found that people who accept and excuse stupidity or carelessness in themselves will most likely accept and excuse it in others.

People who can't live up to high standards and be responsible for their actions can always become hippies and live in a commune. Or politicians.

I don't want them as engineers or mechanics, doctors, nurses, or pharmacists, pilots or train-drivers, gun-layers or gun-owners around me. Their lazy "mistakes" will eventually kill other people.

Tinpig

 

[Drail]

Tinpig, well said sir, you hit it square on the head.

 

[Cannonball888]

The ranger, Cynthia Claggett, was practicing drawing her sidearm at her apartment in the 700 block of Southeast 14th Street about 2 a.m. May 31 when she fired a single round

I'm sorry but I can't help but imagining her drunk and drawing in front of a mirror in a Travis Bicklesque way mumbling to herself "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking..." BANG!

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Stoopid Discharge

I've had an AD.

The pistol was pointed downrange at the berm.

It was loaded. I knew it was loaded. I had just made sure it was loaded. On purpose.

I pulled the trigger.

It went BANG!

I about jumped out of my skin.

Why?

I was trying to demonstrate that this *particular* pistol would not fire with the magazine removed.

I had forgotten that this particular pistol was the one *without* a magazine disconnect.

So, I said to the wife, "look, Dear, see, when the magazine is out of this one, it won't fire . . . just . . ." BANG!! Oh, crap! Sorry, Babe, it's the other pistol that has that feature.

Red face.

Yeah, here I was, briefing my wife on the finer points of our hardware, like I knew what I was doing.

I really never meant for that pistol to fire.

I actually didn't expect it to fire.

Yet I pulled the trigger, and it did.

But . . .

Rules 1, 2, and 4 were all in place.

Nobody got hurt.

Except my pride.

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Accept and Excuse?

I've found that people who accept and excuse stupidity or carelessness in themselves will most likely accept and excuse it in others.

People who can't live up to high standards and be responsible for their actions can always become hippies and live in a commune. Or politicians.

I don't want them as engineers or mechanics, doctors, nurses, or pharmacists, pilots or train-drivers, gun-layers or gun-owners around me. Their lazy "mistakes" will eventually kill other people.

Dude.

What do you do when you make a mistake?

Turn in your badge? Resign in disgrace? Fall on your sword? Jump off a bridge?

Or do you try to learn from it, use the moment to teach others, and move on?

Because, hey, someone who will make a typo might make a math mistake; someone who makes a math mistake might make a measuring mistake; someone who makes a measuring mistake might build a faulty bridge or skyscraper and kill thousands of people through his incompetence.

Clearly, people who make mistakes should be expelled from their professions and trades.

'Cuz there's only room for perfect people in this world.

Me? If I had been held to that standard, I probably would never have lived past thirty.

Somehow I got here, though, and I'm really good at what I do.

And I still use my stoopid moments to teach others so that they can avoid those same pitfalls.

And, yes, some of my work has had people's well being and careers "in my hands."

I just make sure the "pointy end" of my mistakes isn't aimed at someone's eye.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

I have a question for the forum members that hold themselves and others to the highest,, "no excuse for negligent discharge", "we demand perfection" standards. Do you guys shoot perfect groups, too? If not, you should quit shooting and let the professionals do it.