Thursday, September 01, 2016

The Blame Game

Responding to Glock’s lawsuit, she referenced news stories about a sheriff's deputy accidentally firing a Glock pistol in San Francisco’s Hall of Justice, a Los Angeles police officer who was paralyzed from the waist down after his 3-year-old son accidentally fired his Glock pistol, and a Massachusetts man who was dancing at a July 4th party when his Glock handgun fired while it was in his pocket. [More]
Damn -- if all that ain't the fault of the gun, I don't know what is!

This Maura Healey character certainly is a piece of ... work.

[Via Roger J]

2 comments:

Elmo said...

So... This aspiring Kamala Harris wannabe cites two cops and a drunk that have accidental (read; negligent) discharges in making her case?

Thanks for giving my daily Statist-induced headache a jumpstart this morning, David.

Ed said...

A reasonable person could easily conclude that if a weapon was unsafe in the hands of consumers, then it definitely would be unsafe in the hands of law enforcement officers, because what separates them from the rest of us? Training in a police academy transfers knowledge of usage easily acquired by the rest of us if it can be identified and documented. Perhaps it is the sprinkling of magic fairy pixie dust over police academy trainees by learned and wise instructors that imparts powers unobtainable by the ordinary consumer.