Accidental Shooting Stirs Secret Service

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Either someone is getting there rear chewed for being overly stupid...
OR
It was something more like a struggle and the gun went off???

Is it me or are we seeing a lot of handgun shooting on TV.......soon to be followed by more anti-gun laws to "protect us" from the bad guys???
Both guns were inports, so what now, maybe ban imported guns?
have a 6 month waiting period to get a gun???

[edit on 4/17/2007 by mrmonsoon]

It could have been an accidental discharge, and the bullet fragmented and the fragments hit the second officer in the face. If it was a struggle for the weapon I'd expect much more severe injuries. If you remember there was a DEA (I think he was DEA anyway) agent who went into a schoolroom for parent career day and shot himself in the foot with his own weapon in an accidental discharge.

You're not going to see new gun control laws because of an accidental discharge by an armed federal agent. They're human and they happen, but since they HAVE to be able to carry weapons, it's not going to affect gun control laws.

[edit on 4/17/2007 by Zaphod58]

There's no such thing as an accidental discharge.

The failure rate of a firearm--built to proper standards--is negligible.

There are only intentional and unintentional discharges. There are no accidents. If you do not follow the rules of handling a firearm, you can unintentionally discharge it--but it will be no accident.

Exactly. An accident would be a mechanical failure that could not have been forseen. An incident formed through negligence is simply negligence.

I've seen a rash of shotty training (or discipline) in the US government lately, both in the military, and in law enforcement.

I can only assume this is a direct result of it.