Fun With Guns: Prison Edition
Virginia is apparently not just for lovers.
Two prison guards take an inmate to the hospital. One prison guard goes with the inmate while the other stays in the parking lot apparently “cleaning his gun.” That, I know, is generally a euphemism for what perverts do in a parking lot. However, in this case, police believe actual firearms were involved because they have blood and gore to prove it.
And that’s where the fun begins.
A Virginia Department of Corrections officer was wounded in an apparent accident Thursday morning when a firearm carried by another officer discharged in a parking lot near VCU Medical Center in downtown Richmond.
If you want to “clean your gun” in a parking lot, please try to make sure it’s not a weapon that harms others.
Holy cow. I am certain that much inmate laughing has ensued.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
If you want to “clean your gun” in a parking lot, a hospital parking lot seems like the best possible choice. Yikes.
1AD, or accidental discharge, is a real penalty against you if you do so as a federal agent (FBI, CIA, ATF, etc.). It can cost you a promotion or even your job. Yes, I know I live in Virginia but I do not know if the state prison guards have the same deal on AD’s. They really should have. I wouldn’t mind if some of my state taxes covered that contingency. And that was a shout out to the new Blue governor!
2In a picture: http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20140110-cbc_dallas_0110met005.jpg.ece/BINARY/w700x467/cbc_dallas_0110met005.JPG
3@Zyxomma, according to the newspaper article, the incident happened in a parking lot owned by a school, another best possible choice.
4Nobody should be “cleaning” anything in any public place. Ewwwww.
5I’m glad we don’t have any guns any more. They skeer me.
6I retired as a Texas Correctional Officer and escorted many inmates to Hospitals and other destinations. I was required to carry a weapon within sight of the offender at all times. If I had an “accidental discharge”, my career would have been severely shortened. The officer may have been “clearing” or unloading the weapon. If so, his apparent cluelessness would ensure he wouldn’t have to carry a weapon any more.
7We need to convince the media not to use the term “accidental” or “apparent accidental” to describe discharge of a firearm by a law enforcement officer or a gun owner. The right term is “careless.” Officers and non-police gun owners presumably have training in safe handling of firearms, so when they aren’t careful and the thing “goes off”…it’s *careless” discharge. Call it what it is.
8Ditto Elizabeth. Drunk driving causes a lot of “accidents,” too.
9One of the problems we face in an increasingly mechanized society is the chance that the human operating a piece of equipment is acting carelessly. People operating planes, cars, and boats have all caused injury and/or death by operating these devices unsafely. This is why we ask government to enforce laws seeking to ensure that persons operating these devices have a certain minimal level of training in their safe use.
Guns, of course, should never be regulated in this manner, because it is completely impossible for anyone to use one in an irresponsible manner. In fact, it is inevitable that further investigation will show that the officer acted properly in this situation, and broke up a terrorist plot.
Oh, and investing with Bernie Madoff is 100% safe – so we don’t need to regulate investment advisors, either.
10“accidental discharge,” not safety is an explanation both for how these gohmerts were conceived and how they handle a deadly firearm.
11Sounds like a case of premature detonation.
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