Exactly. If a blue trainer wasn’t available, you damn-sure make sure the weapon is empty. Then you double and triple check, then get someone else to check it too. No excuse for this. That guy belongs in prison for the negligent death.
I mean...shit....just takr the barrel out and you don’t even have to worry.....
Lets face facts though...the cops they have doing the citizen academy are not your meat eaters who train hard and chase criminals. They are the police who find a inside job as quick as they can because the real world is scary.
Then lock it open and put a plastic zip-tie through everything to ensure it doesn’t get loaded, too. Unreal.
A gun is ALWAYS considered loaded.
You only pull the trigger.....wait, you only put your finger inside of the trigger guard, if you intend to fire the weapon.
I don’t know the exact circumstances in this case, but for myself, I could NEVER point my unloaded gun at a human being and pull the trigger. No matter how sure I was that it was unloaded, I just could never do it.
When I was a kid, three of us were out in the woods hunting squirrels and just having a good time. I was walking beside my friend with the shotgun and our other friend was walking directly ahead of us about 20 feet.
My friend with the shotgun leveled it and pointed at our friends back. Just as he was pulling the trigger, something told him to raise the gun, and he fired!
He was just as surprised as the rest of us that the gun went off. He was POSITIVE that the safety was on.
Something in his basic gun safety training or maybe the Lord intervened, but we all learned a valuable lesson that day.
“I didn’t know the gun was loaded” or “the safety was on” are useless pathetic excuses for reckless activity.
*****NEVER***** point a gun at someone you don’t intend to shoot!
“If a blue trainer wasn’t available, you damn-sure make sure the weapon is empty.”
How about just shaping your fingers like a gun? Nobody dies that way...
Many places will not train unless there is a blue trainer available.
[Exactly. If a blue trainer wasn’t available, you damn-sure make sure the weapon is empty. Then you double and triple check, then get someone else to check it too. No excuse for this. That guy belongs in prison for the negligent death.]
Hell, make a “gun” with your hand if you don’t have a prop gun.
This was just sheer stupidity.