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Well I know I will get destroyed for this lol. He was drunk and killed his wife. Don't feel the least bit bad for him. Run from the cops. Kill an innocent person. You get what you deserve!!! It was a bad shooting. Do I feel bad for the victim? Nope!!
Well I know I will get destroyed for this lol. He was drunk and killed his wife. Don't feel the least bit bad for him. Run from the cops. Kill an innocent person. You get what you deserve!!!
I've no sympathy for the drunk neither and I don't think any of the previous posters indicate otherwise.
I think what the officer did was wrong and I don't believe it's accidental -- not sure how you can prove that it's accidental, unless he thought he had a taser like the Fruitvale Station shooting.
I would question the accidental discharge too. Police handguns are double-action with a heavy trigger pull specifically to avoid accidental discharge (since they also do not have safeties). That is part of the reason their firearm accuracy is so awful.
Was he using a personal firearm that was not inside department regulations for trigger pull?
Revolvers have DA trigger on all shots (unless the hammer is intentionally thumbed back), semi-auto pistol not necessarily so. Most (all? That I am aware of?) semi-autos leave the hammer cocked after the first shot and are SA after it.
And, it's neither a reason nor an excuse for a lack of accuracy. I used a Sig P220E DA/SA .45 auto for the Police Combat Pistol Course and did very well with it (in spite of having to swap mags more frequently than others using double-stacked hi-cap 9s). But then, I enjoy shooting and typically was at the range for several hours on pretty much a weekly basis.
Poor accuracy is solely a lack of [regular] training and practice.
On-topic- MO, bad shoot but don't feel sorry for the shootee, he should have died in the crash too.
If the shooting was truly "accidental", then what does it matter what happened during the chase?
notmeofficer is pointing out that the lack of a threat brings into question why the officer had his gun out and why he had his finger inside the trigger guard. Those are not illegal actions, but without those two things happening, the accidental shooting never happens.
Revolvers have DA trigger on all shots (unless the hammer is intentionally thumbed back), semi-auto pistol not necessarily so. Most (all? That I am aware of?) semi-autos leave the hammer cocked after the first shot and are SA after it.
Stock they are DA/SA, but when deployed for police they are aftermarket modified to be DA on all shots. As someone who enjoys shooting, you probably understand what it takes to have an accidental discharge on a 10+ lb pull DA semi-auto....
Cop was scared, as usual. At least he got to go home safely. He will probably get a paid vacation and his other associated gang members will probably conclude that he did nothing wrong.
Whats it like spending all your time on one agenda?..got to get boring.
Yikes the video is horrifying. Accidental or not the police officer was dead wrong. Accidental shootings do happen. I know of two. One friend who is very good accidentally shot a hole in his wall at home. He was being careless. Another one shot a hole in the squad car by being an idiot. He should have been fired but he managed to keep his job. We all do stupid things from time to time, but this shooting is over the top stupid.
Location: Free State of Florida, Support our police
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A man was shot for no reason. I absolutely have sympathy for the driver who got shot.
He killed an innocent person. He will still live albeit he will have to sit in a chair and eat baby food!!! Personally I have zero sympathy for him.
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