I'm falling down on the job. So fixated on intentional discharges of guns by cops I nearly missed the latest installment of 100 gun fuckups.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/29...FAIL-LXXXI
As a sampler:
The LARG-O battle cry - "I didn't know it was loaded."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/29...FAIL-LXXXI
Quote:Accidentally shooting oneself still accounts for the most significant part of the GunFAIL incidents logged. This latest installment of 100 features 41 self-shootings. Likewise, child victims are also involved in a major chunk of our reports, with 20 such incidents involving kids from 15 months old through age 17. Seven of the kids were age 5 or younger. Eleven people were accidentally shot by their own family members, friends or significant others. Fifteen of our 100 incidents resulted in fatalities.
All the usual categories of failure are represented, as we've come to expect. Twelve law enforcement or security guard accidents, 11 "home invasion" shootings or shootings that otherwise penetrated walls, seven accidents with guns people said they didn't think were loaded, five target or range shooting accidents, five gun-cleaning accidents, five hunting accidents, four holster accidents, three firearms training accidents (including one instructor), two accidents while out and about shopping or dining among the public (one at a convenience store and one at a Sonic restaurant), and our third teacher to accidentally discharge a weapon in school this academic year.
As a sampler:
The LARG-O battle cry - "I didn't know it was loaded."
Quote:CORNELIA, GA, 10/15/14: Habersham County authorities said a 25-year-old man died Thursday after he accidentally shot himself Wednesday night as he was playing with a .38 revolver. Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell said Eric Daniel apparently thought the weapon was not loaded. The incident happened around 6 PM at a residence on Locke Road in Cornelia. The sheriff said Daniel's wife and children, as well as his wife's sister, were in the house at the time. Terrell said no foul play is suspected, and the shooting was simply a tragic accident.