Off-duty deputy’s un-holstered gun goes off in his pocket at a bowling alley and strikes a 10-year-old child in the back. It appears this guy may have been trying out for the FBI. $10 it was a Glock or similar with the safety on the trigger. You never carry one with a round in the chamber and no holster or you get this. We can’t fathom what’s so hard about figuring that out.
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Must of had problems with opponents going over the line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOnm37bQ2Y8
No, with opponents refusing to obey the rules.
Even a newcomer to firearms like me knows how stupid this was... even before ever handling one. Holy crap.
Who carries a gun in his pocket while bowling? How could that possibly be comfortable?
Wait, I can answer that first question myself. A "deputy" wouldn't carry a gun in his pocket while bowling, but a guy who's at the bowling alley to engage in a drug transaction would. They need to figure out what this guy was doing at the bowling alley that made him think a gun in his right front pants pocket was necessary... because it sure as hell wasn't bowling.
Why do people want to blame a Glock? I have had a Glock .40 for years and it never "fired accidently". They are just a different kind of pistol and have to be handled differently. Number one rule is never have a round in the pipe until you intend to use it. Rule two is always carry one in a holster on your hip or an approved shoulder holster. Not stuck in your pants, not in your pocket, in a proper holster. Not hard to figure that out if you are halfway smart.
I have carried a Glock 19 for years and never keep a round in the chamber. Ditto for the .357 revolver in the house. That's kept unloaded with 3 speed loaders next to it. Those are the common sense gun rules I favor.
All my guns are loaded with the hammer on an empty chamber. Except my .9mm. It has an excellent thumb safety and when set it is impossible to fire the gun accidentally or any other way.
That's because you keepa you finger offa da triger until you ready to shoota.
I have a Walther PPS I carry. If I had to carry it in a pocket I have a soft pocket holster that works fine.
A Walther is a good weapon but you still have to be careful, they don't have a thumb safety. Same as with a Glock, don't carry it with a round in the chamber.
See what lowering standards does? The government has been trying for years to lower standards for cops. I have seen it and this is what you get, no F*cking common sense....
About 10,12 years ago New Mexico dropped the size requirements for state cops to attract more recruits. I got stopped at a DUI checkpoint one evening and this woman, maybe 5'2" and 100 pounds soaking wet was wearing a state cop uniform. New Mexico is a vast, wide open state and our staties patrol alone, sometimes miles from any kind of backup and I'm thinking wtf is this? That little girl could pull a truck over on I-40 and some big burley driver could slap the crap out of her with one hand, she could get hurt or even killed by an asshole and he wouldn't have any problem doing it. Lowering standards is not only a danger to the public, it is a danger to those who should not be cops to begin with.
I thought about being a cop when I was in my 20's. I was 5'7" then (I've shrunk to 5'6"). Then I started thinking about what was I going to do trying to cuff a 300 pound pissed off drunk/drugged up asshole by myself? I changed my mind and I still feel that way. Cops should be big enough to take on a half a football team IMO.
I used to work with a retired policeman. He was working as security at a bank where I worked and I used to spend my breaks with him. He was rather famous locally because he had directed traffic at the busiest intersection in Grand Rapids, right in front of the big downtown hotel where three streets intersected. Everybody knew him. When I asked him why he retired, he said the first week after they installed traffic lights at his intersection he was walking a beat like a regular cop again when a big black guy came running out of a jewelry store with the proprietor chasing him yelling "Stop! Thief!" Well of course he took off chasing the thief. He said, "I chased him down Division for half a mile, then I chased him up Wealthy for half a mile, then he turned into an alley that I knew was a dead end so I thought, 'Now I've got the bastard!' Then he got to the end of the alley, turned around, and beat the shit out of me. That's when I knew it was time to retire."
Why didn't he just shoot the criminal? He would have been justified in my book.
Not sure he carried a gun. There used to be beat cops in America that, like the British bobbies, relied on their size, a night stick, and whistles to call for assistance. The guys who directed traffic were part of that department--they didn't carry guns either.
My mom had a cute story about a traffic director. He was at the other end of the downtown main street from the other guy. Apparently he was really handsome and Mom, about fifteen at the time, had a major crush on him. My grandfather had a business on the main drag so of course the cop knew my mom and I'm guessing he knew she had a crush on him. Anyway, one day when she was first driving on her own, she was so busy looking at the cop as she drove past him that she ran into the back of the car ahead of her. No damage was done but the guy got out of his car and started yelling at Mom. This is in the middle of a major intersection. The cop stopped directing traffic, walked over--all the beat cops and traffic directors were big tall guys, like all the firefighters used to be--picked the guy up by his shirt front, held him in the air for a minute, and told him to get back in his car and leave the pretty girl alone. He did. And my mom's crush was magnified.
HAHA...I'm not a city boy, never seen a traffic director. I can remember when cops were like that here, big strong guys who took no lip. And the state cops were huge, linebacker size men.
Now the left wants them all to be little, college, pussies!
I'm a good sized boy, 6'1" and about 145 when I got out of the service and iron hard. I had known our local sheriff for years and when I got back home he asked if I wanted to be a deputy. He would pay for my training, furnish uniform shirts and gear. I had to supply my own pistol. Most of the deputies wore western cut slacks or jeans and boots back then and that was out of their own pocket.
I thought about it. I thought about the rage I still had in me. Finally I told him no, I wouldn't be able to do it. The first time some young punk gave me lip for pulling him over for speeding I would reach in the window and slap the crap out of him to get his attention. If I had to face some 300 pound drunk, cranked up animal I would just shoot him, no screwing around. And that is not the way a good cop acts. A good cop has compassion and while I have lots of it now back then I didn't. Cops have to have unlimited patience and that is something I have never had much of. How men like deepthinker and Nos have done that job as long as they have is beyond me. They are bigger men than I ever will be and I don't make that statement lightly.