The Four Rules
The four rules of gun safety, in no particular order:
1. All guns are always loaded.
2. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target. (Popularly: “Keep the booger hook off the bang switch.”)
3. Do not let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
4. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.
Now, how about we watch some footage of what happens when you ignore the four rules? Warning, this is a pretty big file.
A negligent discharge. Otherwise known as “I’m the only one in this room professional enough, that I know of, to carry this Glock .40.”
The first time I watched this, I got a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, the kind you get when you witness a major traffic accident or other incidents that can have deadly repercussions. Many have ridiculed the agent in the clip, called him a moron and worse. I personally think that he just let himself get distracted. Unfortunately, while holding a deadly weapon is not the time to get distracted. And I’d say he paid for the lesson learned in no small amount of blood and pride.
Now, if we could just make sure that the drivel he was spouting about guns both before and, to a lesser extent, after could be kept clear of the indoctrination camps. Err, I mean schools.