The Detroit Free Press: Guard's accidental gunfire in Oxford school raises issue of arming school employees
Instead, it raises a very real training issue for proper arming of school employees:
Monday’s incident at Oxford Middle School, which is on the border of Oxford Village and Oxford Township, occurred when a school security guard was using the single-stall staff restroom, near the field house, and he placed his handgun on a door hook, the school district said in a statement.
Quick Tip: You never, ever, hang your firearm by the trigger-guard on a hook in the washroom, or anywhere else for that matter. It's ridiculously unsafe and there's no need to do it at all. Just you leave it in your holster.
It is rather amazing that someone actually did this at all as it displays some impressive lack of gun handling training.
Scarily enough, the security guard is describes as having "28 years of law enforcement training".
You would have thought proper gunhandling habits would have been brought up sometime in those 28 years.
Impressively, not only was no one hurt, but no one in the entire school except the guard apparently even noticed the negligent discharge.
3 comments:
OK, many guns can slam fire when dropped, but every gun I ever have will have a thumb safety.
There are no "accidental" shootings. (ask that asswipe Baldwin)
Matthew W: This wasn't a dropped gun problem, it's literally the idiot pulling the trigger with the hook while taking the gun off the hook.
I agree that this was not accidental, it was clearly negligent, if not full-on grossly negligent. Luckily no one was hurt in the process of this stupidity.
Sigh... 'training' yeah, right.
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