IMHO Only idiots and the mentally ill would leave a weapon where children could get their hands on it.
Given that gun safety instructors regularly shoot themselves (even their students) while teaching gun safety - and the children of cops regularly get their hands on their parent's weapon - I tend to doubt that. I think it's something that gun owners tell themselves to feel better. "Well, I don't have to worry about that, because I am not an idiot!" Until it happens to them.
Sadly, it seems that the parents of the children in daycare had entrusted their offspring to the care of the mentally ill or challenged.
By those standards, you trust your life to cops that are (apparently) mentally ill.
IMHO Using examples of the actions of the mentally challenged or mentally ill as a means of abrogating other's rights is disingenuous on a good day. And simply dishonest on any other day.
OK. Instead I will use examples of cops and gun safety experts.
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On 9 April 2004, a DEA agent (who has not been identified by name in press accounts) delivered a presentation on gun safety to about 50 adults and students at an event sponsored by the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association. Partway through his lecture, the agent picked up his .40-caliber duty weapon and held it up for the audience to see as he announced: “This is a Glock 40. Fifty Cent, Too Short, all of them talk about a Glock 40, OK? I’m the only one in this room professional enough that I know of to carry this Glock 40.” Seconds later the gun discharged, wounding the agent in the thigh.
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(2014) A member of the Hewitt Police Department is recovering from surgery for a self-inflicted gun-wound. Sgt. Heath Vaneck -- the Hewitt Police Department's firearms instructor -- shot himself in the left hand with his own personal 9 mm pistol. Vaneck was teaching his family how to clean and shoot the semi-automatic pistol on July 15, when he accidentally shot himself, the
Waco Tribune-Herald reported. He declined to comment about the incident.
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(2013) Michael Piemonte was attending a concealed-carry class with his wife Alison in central Ohio's Fairfield County over the weekend. Such classes are required for anyone wanting carry a concealed weapon in the state.
There were 29 students in the lecture-type class, Piemonte said. He was sitting in the front row. While the instructor was demonstrating a self-defense techniques, the gun went off. The bullet struck Piemonte in the arm.
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(2014) A firearms instructor for a Texas police department accidentally shot himself in the hand during a shooting lesson,
the Waco Tribune-Herald reported. Hewitt Police Department Sgt. Heath Vanek is expected to miss at least two months of work while recovering from surgery to repair the wound to his left hand sustained by his 9-mm. pistol, Police Chief Jim Devlin said, according to the paper.
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(2016) Police say an Ohio officer’s 2-year-old son died after shooting himself with his father’s gun Friday morning. Officers responded to a home in Cleveland about 10:30 a.m., the Associated Press reported. The child died at a hospital, according to the Cleveland Division of Police. The toddler’s father, 54-year-old Jose Pedro, is a 23-year veteran of the Cleveland police department.
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(2010) The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department have released the name of the officer who left his off-duty weapon within reach of a 3-year-old child in Gaston County last week. Officer Winsthon J. Mercedes has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
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