These people need their guns taken away for our safety.
Nothing to see here, folks!
I live near this area and have many friends on the Kennesaw City PD (where the victim was from) and on the Cobb County PD (where the instructer was from).
This "instructor" was widely known as "not the sharpest knife in the drawer", which was why he was "instructing" in the first place.
A tragedy, to be sure, but there is NO EXCUSE for incompetents to be "teaching" people. This also applys to our gooberment skrewel systems.
Agreed. There is NO excuse for not clearing a weapon before using it in training.
This story is unbelievable. The instructor needs to be charged.
It's sad but accidents do happen, an instructor should know better.
I stopped going to indoor shooting ranges years ago when I noticed all the bullet holes in the ceiling, You never know who's in the lane next to you.
Prayers for Her Family.
Why does this remind me of the cop with the glock in the school saying that he's the only one in the room qualified to SHOOT HIMSELF!
just damn
Note that Kennesaw is the town that passed an ordinance requiring heads of households to be armed, IIRC. It seems counterintuitive and somewhat ironic that this unfortunate accident should happen in that particular town.
They should be wearing their vests beginning in week six.
It's important that negligence like this is rewarded with *hard time* to keep people even more highly motivated to avoid accidently killing co-workers.
He would have beaten my a## if I had ever engaged in the kind of horseplay with guns I saw some of my drunk buddies do as a teen, but he didn't need to. The craziest thing I ever did with a gun was shoot hornet's nests with them, and we were sober even then. His lessons stuck. Guns are just plain dangerous. I don't care HOW familiar you are as an "instructor." It takes once to kill or maim someone. You may end someone else's life and ruin what is left of yours.
If I may, a few rules:
1) there is no such thing as an "unloaded" gun
2) if you point it, it should only be with the purpose of discharging it (in the case that you are pointing it at a person, the only thing that should change this is if you no longer see their face, but their back)
3) if you display it in a hostile manner it should be for the purpose if withdrawing it, pointing it, and discharging it if the situation continues
4) always assume the other person with a weapon will do the most stupid thing imaginable
Just a final note for anyone still bored enough to be reading this. A good friend and a VERY safe gun user almost killed me a month ago at the range. I have shot with him for some time and I felt VERY comfortable with his rituals of safety (which mirror mine). He had a .40 SW with VERY light action (new to him). He shot the weapon once, and the recoil snapped the pistol to almost straight up in the air. He did not realize how feather light the action was and accidentally discharged another round while the pistol was pointed up. The round hit a steel girder, and ricocheted past my head (I felt the air before I heard the whizz). I flinched, and my friend thought he had shot me. This guy is a safety fanatic (he was horrified at his own actions), and if it can happen to HIM, it could happen to anyone. I wish every gun owner and user could have had my dad as someone to introduce them to firearms.
Promote the man and give him more responsibility.
Why was it, when we were training twenty something years ago, we always had to use those deactivated red-handled guns. Think it might have been for safety reasons?
If a "civilian" shot someone they might be charged with negligent homicide. I wonder is this blue line member will be charged?
The victim is an innocent person. She was there for training as a peace officer. It isn't her responsibility to ensure her instructors know what they are doing.