Okay, let’s go to Lodi, California, where a local SWAT officer was showing his swat truck, vest, and other cool toys to little kids at a “reading roundup.”

All was going as planned until —

A Lodi Police SWAT officer had a Glock 35 with a flashlight in his thigh holster at a children’s reading event when a boy managed to pull the trigger and shoot the officer.

“It doesn’t have an external safety or anything like that,” said Lt. Sierra Brucia with the department. “The gun functioned how it was supposed to. When the trigger was pulled, the gun went off.”

Ka-bam!

The officer as shot in the leg and will be okay.  Witnesses say a small child – 6 to 8 years old – walked up to the officer and pulled the trigger.  Then apparently hitched a ride to Canada or something.

Officers want to find the child and his parents to piece together what went wrong.

“Hopefully, speaking to the child and the child’s parents to find out how they were able to get access to the officer’s gun, what the child’s intent may have been—we don’t know if it was accidental or unintentional.”

Now here’s the part that rocked my world.

Police say because the gun was in a holster to accommodate the attached flashlight, the trigger was more accessible.

Well, duh.  This is your first time around kids?