A little too close to home

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Filed in: Current Events, Techniques & Training
A recently discharged Marine decides he wants to become a cop - a member of a SWAT team, no less. So he signs on with a local Sheriff's Office, and prepares for his new career by practicing his quick draw.

With a loaded gun.

In the house.

With his wife home.

With his finger on the ?#$@!!*&^% trigger.

Unusually strident for me, you say? Maybe it's because the victim worked at the pet store where my wife and I shop. We even know her dog. We're pissed.

Is this another failure of Traditional Rule #1? Possibly - likely, even. One thing is certain: this guy had some mental justification for doing something stupid with a gun, and his wife paid the ultimate price. I haven't seen any interview with him - yet - but I'll bet one of the first things he'll say is "I thought it was unloaded."

(And to think that one of the "talking points" of the anti-gun crowd is that "only the military and law enforcement can be trusted with guns." Yeah, right.)

If there are any readers of this blog in Clark County, make absolutely sure Sheriff Lucas understands that hiring this fellow would be a really, really bad idea.

-=[ Grant ]=-

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