Friday, March 11, 2005
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Broken Masterpieces provides a link to this post from Stop The Bleating. STB's post links to a video.
Before I send you there, this is an uncomfortable thing to watch, the title to the video which appears in the player window is obscene, and the advertising, while not pornographic is of questionable taste. The video is a police officer showing a firearm to a classroom full of kids and while attempting to show safe handling, he shoots himself.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this thing. The thing that gets to me is this -- the gun was not originally on the officer's person -- in the video, he walks over to get it for demonstration purposes. Any officer that would bring a loaded firearm into a classroom, and have it anywhere but on his person is by definition an idiot. I know, he didn't think it was loaded, but the first rule of fireamrs, is never think they are not loaded.
Before I send you there, this is an uncomfortable thing to watch, the title to the video which appears in the player window is obscene, and the advertising, while not pornographic is of questionable taste. The video is a police officer showing a firearm to a classroom full of kids and while attempting to show safe handling, he shoots himself.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this thing. The thing that gets to me is this -- the gun was not originally on the officer's person -- in the video, he walks over to get it for demonstration purposes. Any officer that would bring a loaded firearm into a classroom, and have it anywhere but on his person is by definition an idiot. I know, he didn't think it was loaded, but the first rule of fireamrs, is never think they are not loaded.
