Fun With Guns: Capitol Police Bathroom Duty Edition
I know that being on the security detail of Mitch McConnell or John Boehner has to be where the chief of security sends you because we don’t have gulags in Siberia, but holy cow guys, don’t try to quit by leaving your weapon in the toilet.
When a member of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s security detail left his Glock and magazine stuffed in the toilet seat cover holder of a Capitol Visitor Center bathroom stall, a CVC worker found the gun, according to a source familiar with the Jan. 29 incident and two other disturbing instances when Capitol Police left loaded firearms in problematic places.
Boehner’s security detail did the same thing.
A member of the security detail for John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, allegedly left the firearm in the bathroom of the Speaker’s Suite on March 24.
Y’all unless Clemenza is hiding guns for Michael Corleone to shoot Sollozzo and McCluskey, I can’t see any good reason for this to be happening.
By the way, the first Glock was found by a 7 or 8 year old boy visiting the capitol with his parents.
Thanks to Maggie for the heads up.
Hey! Capitol Police!
Let go of your cannoli.
Take the gun.
1I’ll be glad when the day comes that folks don’t feel like they have to have a gun with them, or even at home.
2Maybe the Capitol should have Glock shelves in the bathroom stalls.
On the other hand, at least neither of these buffoons shot themselves in the Chick-Fil-A while pulling their pants up. That would lead to time-consuming paperwork.
3Does carrying a gun cause stupidity? This another area which needs to be studied, starting with another exit poll. This poll should involve Capitol Police members who are fired and exiting
4their jobs. I think we’re seeing a cause and effect here.
Maybe Boehner asked the security officer to leave the Glock there because he thought about doing us all a great favor? NAH, on second thought, we’d just end up with the same ole sh*t with a different name.
5At the risk of sustaining harassing fire from other patrons, in the interest of full disclosure, I assure you that if I was in a public head in DeeCee, say in the Capitol, and I discovered a feral Glock hiding in the toilet seat cover holder, why I just got a new-to-me Glock to take home and try out. Its all good!
6Hmmm, I had no idea these “aides” carried Glocks. When I passed by the Evil Turtle and his entourage in a narrow hallway in the Capitol a few years back I thought about smacking or tripping him. Instead I gave him an “if looks could kill” stare down. Unfortunately my own evil powers held no sway over as him. But at least I saved myself the trouble of getting arrested (and ruining my vacation, though it might have been worth it).
7Maybe Al Pacino was in town?
8I understand that the Glock does not have a safety.
9Amazing that the kid who found it did not smoke somebody.
Micr, there is nothing wrong with the “finders/keepers principle.” If some dufus is too st00pid to know where his weapon is at all times, it is a much better outcome that said weapon becomes the property of your capable hands.
maryelle, good question: “Does carrying a gun cause stupidity?” In a word, no. In the course of duty carried as many as five. Never lost a weapon nor had a round for which I could not account. But to the other side of your question, carrying a gun does not solve, in fact it enhances, the st00pid of a coward. As we’ve observed with the ammosexuals and other gun humpers, there’s no easy fix for a man without a pair. Owning a gun just amplifies his problems.
10How sad is it that I flashed on “The Godfather” as soon as I read the headline yesterday. Maybe they should go Dudley Doright and put strings attaching the firearm to the officer’s body…
11@PKM
BTW welcome back. I assume the pleasant NV atmosphere will remove the silly orange web that grew on your feet while lazing aboot in the Caribbean.
Thanks for your supportive words. I feel the pain of the feral, left behind handgun. I know it would feel much better in my personal herd, most of whom were built in the USofA, although there is the occasional pre-war Walther to be noted.
12says-smoking is illegal.
13Carrying a gun leads to an attitude of unconcern for the power of that weapon. People “forget” there is a loaded gun in their carry on at the airport. If you are required to carry a gun by your job description you should be required to go through some sort of ritual each day to remind you what the Hell you are carrying around. And you are allowed one screw-up and then you are never allowed to own a firearm again…..ever.
14AliceBeth, the morons who cannot distinguish a live round from a rubber bullet or a taser from a handgun defy the description of “beyond ammosexual st00pid.” I like your “never again” and up it one remove the NRA from the gun humping support gun manufactures at all costs idiots.
Micr, thank you good friend. It sure was a rare pleasure to leave the ranch to treat my beautiful bride to a well deserved second honeymoon. Every day is paradise on the ranch for which we are very fortunate and grateful. But there’s something to be said for a few days without internet, cellphones and chores.
15he left with only his d*** in his hand?
16@AliceBeth
17Succinct comment and point. Yes, if you carry a handgun daily you do learn to go through a checklist, even it is is mental, to make certain that the handgun is shipshape in Bristol fashion, that whatever leather you tote the handgun and additional magazines in is right, and that the handgun is right when you slide it into the leather.
Time for someone to cash in on the gun graze and make some serious moolah. What these morons need are dummy-strings for their Glocks. Just like us kids who kept losing mittens in the wintertime.
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