Infamous Anti-gun Sheriff Shoots Himself in the Hand While Cleaning his Gun (Looks like Barney Fife)

Buzzpo ^ | December 19, 2015 | Eric Reed

[upbeat5]

Sorry, lots of popups at the site. But take a look and see if this guy doesn't look like Barney Fife.

[Yashcheritsiy]

I guess we can see why he’s anti-gun.

Guns are dangerous!

[The_Victor]

How do you clean a weapon with a round in the chamber?

[Gaffer]

Spitballing here....but I BET it was a Glock and I bet his left hand was over the muzzle as he was trying to pull down the slide lock. Those little buggers don’t have much profile..... Dumbass still probably had a round in the chamber....

[Pearls Before Swine]

How do you clean a weapon with a round in the chamber?

That's why he thought he'd dry fire it... to check? Only it weren't dry.

[JayAr36]

If he had two rounds he would have shot himself twice.

[Daniel Ramsey]

By being a weak closed minded fool of an idiot.

A person whose path in life went into a swamp.

[Paladin2]

How can you wipe a gun with a round in the chamber? With a cloth?

[circlecity]

My bet is he was playing with the weapon and after shooting himself resorted to the old “I was cleaning it” excuse.

[bigbob]

It’s not the gun, it’s the bullet!

[Celtic Conservative]

Nope, the gun were wet. And so were his fruit of the looms after the gun went off.

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[OldSmaj]

Looks like your normal dumbass dork liberal with a badge.

Another proof of the fact that some voters are just plain stupid.

[rjsimmon]

[OKSooner]

Oh man... The Graham thread popping up in breaking news and now this too.

This must be Monday, December 21st, "The Jokes Write Themselves" day.

[Reno89519]

Yes, just seeing that as well. So his one or two supporters now have to find a new candidate to support. No one else affected, slow news day so this made the headlines and he gets one last 15-seconds of attention.

[lacrew]

I always interpret this to mean he was screwing around, accidentally pulled the trigger while drawing it out of the holster, etc.

The act of ‘cleaning’ usually starts with disassembly (after clearing it of course). So unless all these guys are ‘cleaning’ the outside of the gun, its just a term that means “I screwed up but don’t want to admit it”.

Another possibility is he dropped the magazine and left a round in the chamber. I was in the military, and I can attest that some people, whose experience with pistols is limited to the qualifying range where you fire until the slide locks back, do not fully comprehend the concept of a round in the chamber.

[JEDI4S]

A heart of stone it would take...not to laugh.

:-)

[Reno89519]

Another way to put this... turns out only police are dangerous.

[thackney]

How do you clean a weapon with a round in the chamber?

Step one, remove the round from the chamber.

Most people remove the entire cartridge in a single step.

Some choose to first remove the bullet, then the casing in two steps.

[mountn man]

He proves his own point.

He's a trained professional.
If someone with his training and experience can do this, imagine the normal, untrained, hoi polloi.