Oops!

What was it the anti’s were saying about guns only being in the hands of law enforcement and the military? After all, they’re the Only Ones professional enough to handle a gun, dontcha know… I’m surprised all of us Gun Nuts haven’t managed to “accidentally” kill each other and ourselves by now, being as stupid and bumbling as we are. Everyone knows that a gun is way too complicated for us mere peons to properly handle. I could go on, but I think you get the point. I don’t buy the “bump AD” either. Someone didn’t follow the four rules and had their booger hook on the bang switch.

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Gun range accident: Cop kills fellow officer

September 30, 2007
BY TOM WYATT Post-Tribune

A Gary auxiliary police officer was killed Saturday afternoon when a fellow volunteer officer’s gun accidentally discharged a bullet into the man’s chest. (How the hell does this happen? -Yuri)

Kevin Weaver, 49, died at St. Margaret Mercy Hospital in Dyer. He and two other reserve officers were training at Deb’s Gun Range in Hammond, Hammond Police Chief Brian Miller said.

About 3 p.m., Gary police said Reserve Officer Gerald Horton, 52, was attempting to clear his weapon when Weaver accidentally bumped into Horton, causing Horton’s gun to fire a .45-caliber round. (Again, how does this happen? -Yuri)

‘A real tragedy’ for Gary

“He was a good officer, a veteran, and a good man,” Terry Smith, head of Gary’s auxiliary police program, said of Weaver, a Merrillville resident who leaves behind a wife and three children.

Gary Mayor Rudy Clay, who returned from Washington, D.C., on Saturday afternoon, learned of the shooting after exiting his airplane at Midway Airport.

“This is just a real tragedy here,” Clay said.

“He was a good man and did some good deeds for a lot of people. His good deeds will live forever.”

Weaver, a reservist since 1990, was a longtime custodian for the Gary School Corp. and owned a cleaning company.

“He was a hardworking man,” Gary police Cmdr. Samuel Roberts said.

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Cop Kills Kid

This has been around the net for a few days now, but I couldn’t bring myself to post anything about it. It involves an “Only One” who, in the process of trying to shoot a snake out of a tree, didn’t pay attention to his backstop and shot a five year old boy in the head. I have small children of my own and it was all I could do to sit through reading the story, let alone the video.

For all of those anti-rights people out there, remember this the next time you think that cops or the military are the “Only Ones” professional enough to have firearms.

Read the story and then follow the link to the video if you can handle it, and listen as a grandfather tearfully recounts the death of his grandson.

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Cop shoots at snake, kills boy, 5

NOBLE, Oklahoma (AP) — A police officer shooting at a snake apparently killed a 5-year-old boy who was fishing at a nearby pond, officials said.

Jack Tracy was fishing with his grandson when a bullet fired by a police officer struck the boy in the head.

Austin Haley was fishing with his grandfather, Jack Tracy, when Tracy said he heard a shot and saw something hit the water just a few feet in front of the boat dock where he was standing.

Moments later, a second shot hit Austin in the head.

A Noble police officer who had responded to a report of a snake in a tree apparently fired the deadly shot while trying to kill the snake on Friday, City Manager Bob Wade said.

“I was told that they tried several ways to get the snake down, but it was still hissing at them and firmly lodged,” Wade said. “What I was told is that the owner of the home either suggested or agreed that they should go ahead and shoot the snake, and then everything happened from there.”

Tracy thought someone must be trying to kill him and his grandson, so he put the child on the back of a 4-wheeler and drove to his daughter’s house about 200 yards away. Watch the tearful grandfather say the bullet should have hit him »

“Then two officers came out of the brush over there,” he told The Oklahoman. “They didn’t tell us they were the ones who had been shooting or that they had shot him. They didn’t admit a doggone thing.”

The boy was pronounced dead at an Oklahoma City hospital, about 25 miles north of Noble.

Wade refused to identify the officer but said the person had been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

“This is so bizarre it has to be fully investigated,” he said. “We’re pretty sure circumstantially that it is the bullet from the police officer’s gun, but it might be a bullet from someone else.”

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown said a state investigation was under way, though it appeared the fatal shot had been fired by the officer.

Tracy has little doubt. “I’m not saying the cop shot him on purpose,” he said. “But let me tell you — if I had a kid and put him in this car and didn’t put him in a car seat and he got killed on the way to town, they’d charge me with murder … and what this cop did is a lot worse than that.”

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