A couple of days ago I wrote about an intoxicated Florida deputy who was at home teaching his son how to clean an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and supervising multiple minor children when the rifle fell from a television tray and discharged as it hit the floor. A girl was seriously wounded in the incident and was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery and extensive care. That deputy said after his arrest by co-worker deputies, that he thought the weapon was not loaded.
Yesterday there was a story about another “accidental” shooting by a sheriff’s deputy in Florida. The young man had been playing video games with his roommate who was also a deputy with the same sheriff’s office. After they had ended their game, the first deputy was clowning around with his service revolver which he, too, thought was empty. He aimed the gun at his roommate and pulled the trigger. A round discharged, hit the roommate, and he died.
As many state governments rush to see which can have the absolute fewest restrictions on gun ownership and the carrying of firearms, some are doing away with requirements for gun safety training for people who want to carry guns in public. Surely this laissez-faire attitude toward gun safety training hasn’t spread into our policing agencies.
Or is gun safety training one of those “woke” policies that right-wingers like Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis hope to eradicate?
Always assume the gun is loaded. I learned that as a child, Governor DeSantis, and never forgot it. Florida could at least be teaching, and re-teaching, that very basic gun safety principle to those whom it entrusts with safeguarding the public.
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