Maverick9
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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20140309_Police_say_Pa__trooper_accidentally_shot_wife.html
How not to clean your gun? Or something more sinister?
How not to clean your gun? Or something more sinister?
Why?No charges have been filed.
Why?
Why no charge? Oh, dear, he's been through enough, why add negligent homicide? /sarcasm
I hate this double-standard. If it were someone without a shiny badge, they'd be in a cage right now.
Let's see what excuse is used for not charging this man. If a negligent discharge happens in the area to a badge-less citizen, I hope recordings of the statement are used to defend said citizen.
Completely different set of circumstance and you know this. The cop was cleaning his gun and killed his wife. He should have known better, a trained professional. Charge him and let the DA not prosecute and explain the reason for not proceeding. LE must charge to ensure that all parties do their job. I will have no issues if the DA, based on the facts, does not prosecute.http://forum.opencarry.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120750
Here. This guy shot a lady in the chest and killed her. He wasn't a cop and didn't go to jail.
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http://forum.opencarry.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120750
Here. This guy shot a lady in the chest and killed her. He wasn't a cop and didn't go to jail.
Why no charge? Oh, dear, he's been through enough, why add negligent homicide? /sarcasm
Completely different set of circumstance and you know this. The cop was cleaning his gun and killed his wife. He should have known better, a trained professional. Charge him and let the DA not prosecute and explain the reason for not proceeding. LE must charge to ensure that all parties do their job. I will have no issues if the DA, based on the facts, does not prosecute.
Not even remotely comparable. You can't prove negligence, let alone criminal culpability, over something like that. It wasn't even his gun! It practically "fell into his lap", and before he had an opportunity to learn about gun safety and handling it discharged.
In fact, we like to say that an "accidental discharge" is impossible without a malfunction, but this may be exactly the sort of thing which could be legitimately described as an "accident" and not a malfunction.
One who owns a gun has a responsibility to be aware of safety, and is negligent for failing to do so. This can hardly be said about someone who has never owned or fired a gun before.
On the other hand, we have a "trained professional" who shoots his wife with his own .45. You're damn right he's culpable. I would expect no less were I in his shoes (which is probably a small part of why I'll never end up in his shoes, but that's another story).
Let's take the emotional aspect of guns out of the equation.
A guy's cleaning the oven (yeah, as if!) and the fumes cause his wife and unborn child to die.
A woman is baking a cake and instead of baking soda, she accidentally uses rat poison and her husband dies.
One spouse is driving a car, runs a traffic signal and T-bones the other spouse's vehicle, killing them.
Should anyone be charged for these tragic, but absolutely non-intentional deaths?
? There's two other threads on here right now discussing NDs that caused injury or death.
The one with the guy finds a gun in the clothing and it "strikes his hand" which kills the girl with a shot to the chest. And the one where the guy shoots himself in the leg because he has a loaded gun in a bag and drops in on the floor. Pretty sure neither were put in a "cage", especially the one that killed the girl.
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Let's take the emotional aspect of guns out of the equation.
A guy's cleaning the oven (yeah, as if!) and the fumes cause his wife and unborn child to die.
A woman is baking a cake and instead of baking soda, she accidentally uses rat poison and her husband dies.
One spouse is driving a car, runs a traffic signal and T-bones the other spouse's vehicle, killing them.
Should anyone be charged for these tragic, but absolutely non-intentional deaths?
Well and good if you have a separate room/facility for cleaning and can do so in complete isolation from others. Most don't and IMHO that is completely unnecessary.The guy made, like five safety errors. Bullets in the room, cleaning a gun with a person in the room, not checking before disassembling, pointing it at a person, and then pulling the trigger not pointed in a safe direction. Clearly enough for a charge of Negligent homicide. A regular citizen would have been charged. Does that mean the cop should have been charged, or neither? No. The sequence of events is not accidental or even surprising.
Besides that, given a horizontal through and through, I don't buy that story on the face of it.