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re: Cop Shoots Wife in Addis (updated)
Posted on 2/6/16 at 4:53 pm to Huey Lewis
Posted on 2/6/16 at 4:53 pm to Huey Lewis
Funeral will run about 25 k these days
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Posted on 2/6/16 at 5:04 pm to Sao
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What's the gofundme for?
You've got me.
I just added to the OP all of the info that's out there.
Posted on 2/6/16 at 5:24 pm to yellowfin
Your serious? I went to one recently. I don't know how much it cost but it certainly didn't seem like it was worth 25k
Posted on 2/7/16 at 1:29 am to Sao
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What's the gofundme for?
His defense attorney.
MF'er is guilty.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 2:56 am to Btrtigerfan
From her picture she looks like a cute young girl who loved life, combined with the fact she just got her masters I am confident she was on her way to a fulfilling life. frick this idiot husband even if it was an accident.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 4:31 am to athenslife101
How can someone that works with this as a living make such a mistake? Shouldn't he be more careful.. And what are the chances she's just in front of where this would go off.. and how can it be such a fatal outcome..
just so many questions. I hate to see this
just so many questions. I hate to see this
Posted on 2/7/16 at 7:37 am to lsu480
The fact is this guy killed someone. He deserves to spend time in prison. Clean your gun somewhere safer
Posted on 2/7/16 at 7:40 am to djangochained
story doesn't pass the smell test
Posted on 2/7/16 at 9:28 am to monsterballads
She should have been making a sandwich
Posted on 2/7/16 at 9:38 am to Btrtigerfan
Cute girl. Too. bad she married a dumb-arse.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 9:46 am to monsterballads
It's hard to believe a trained, experiened LEO would violate 2 of the NRA's sacred gun safety tenants. Even as I novice I know better, and I've taught my wife to avoid potentially dangerous gun habits, as well.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 10:09 am to Btrtigerfan
1,2
Posted on 2/7/16 at 10:20 am to Btrtigerfan
This makes absolutely no sense. LEO's are drilled constantly about gun safety, and go through hours and hours and hours of training.
- Every gun should be handled as if it were loaded, no exception.
- No gun, loaded or unloaded, should EVER be pointed at another individual, unless used in combat. Even at the range, everything aimed down range, or to the ground, at all times.
- Never have your finger on the trigger.
- Never clean a gun while it's loaded. And when clearing the chamber, never have it pointed anywhere but to the ground.
Hell, a novice gun owner is taught this. But LEO, it is constantly drilled into your head daily. I just don't get this. But I guess I don't know the details either.
- Every gun should be handled as if it were loaded, no exception.
- No gun, loaded or unloaded, should EVER be pointed at another individual, unless used in combat. Even at the range, everything aimed down range, or to the ground, at all times.
- Never have your finger on the trigger.
- Never clean a gun while it's loaded. And when clearing the chamber, never have it pointed anywhere but to the ground.
Hell, a novice gun owner is taught this. But LEO, it is constantly drilled into your head daily. I just don't get this. But I guess I don't know the details either.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 10:30 am to Festus
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This makes absolutely no sense. LEO's are drilled constantly about gun safety, and go through hours and hours and hours of training.
No, they actually don't.
Most smaller agencies shoot a POST course every 6 months and that is it.
And 99% of the training is in the use of the weapon....Drawing from holster, sight picture, reloading, accuracy, and movement.
Very little training in every day handling of guns....which is crazy. But typically it is taken for granted that officers will safely handle their weapons.
Another problem is because officers handle guns every day they take gun safety for granted and get complacent with it.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 10:40 am to theenemy
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No, they actually don't.
I disagree. Maybe in Arkansas they don't, but not everywhere else.
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Most smaller agencies shoot a POST course every 6 months and that is it.
I was in a smaller agency years ago, and it was drilled. Constantly.
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And 99% of the training is in the use of the weapon....Drawing from holster, sight picture, reloading, accuracy, and movement.
Glad I don't live in Arkansas.
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Very little training in every day handling of guns....which is crazy. But typically it is taken for granted that officers will safely handle their weapons.
Hell, you learn the importance of safe gun handling in simple safety classes for concealed carry. It was never assumed officers will handle their weapons safely. But It was expected, since they should be trained to do so
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Another problem is because officers handle guns every day they take gun safety for granted and get complacent with it.
That's the craziest thing I've ever heard. You're taught the opposite. I mean, the exact opposite.
Who doesn't know not to clean a loaded gun? Who doesn't know not to aim the gun in any direction but down when clearing the chamber before cleaning the gun?
If where you live, LEO isn't constantly drilled with gun safety, I sincerely feel sorry for your community.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 10:44 am to theenemy
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Very little training in every day handling of guns.
Um. I was taught gun safety in the third grade. Something isn't adding up here
Posted on 2/7/16 at 10:57 am to Festus
I know talking out your arse is commonplace on the OT but this one really takes the cake.
People assume LE officers are "gun guys" and receive "hours and hours" of training just because they carry a gun every day. Fact is that the majority of police training is dedicated to things like legal updates, dealing with mental patients, being sensitive to minorities and sexual assault victims and a myriad of other subjects mandated by politicians and the courts. Hell, the LA Legislature tried to mandate eight hours of training for every LE officer last year on how to resuscitate heroin OD patients.
In the midst of all that, most regular officers (non-SWAT) are lucky to get 8 hours A YEAR at the range. The POST Academy gets them about 40 hours.
This isn't conjecture, this is fact. One of my good friends is a Range Master for a major department in LA and we discuss this often over beers. His agency is typical of agencies across LA that are on the HIGH END of training. Smaller departments like Addis might get eight hours of training TOTAL a year including firearms. I believe POST mandates 40 hours a year of "in-service" training and many agencies fake that paperwork or have their guys watch videos, etc. People want to demand professional and competent law enforcement yet they want to pay HS grads $35-50k a year. You don't get the cream of the crop at those rates. Pony up more tax dollars and get true professional LE or accept what we have now.
People assume LE officers are "gun guys" and receive "hours and hours" of training just because they carry a gun every day. Fact is that the majority of police training is dedicated to things like legal updates, dealing with mental patients, being sensitive to minorities and sexual assault victims and a myriad of other subjects mandated by politicians and the courts. Hell, the LA Legislature tried to mandate eight hours of training for every LE officer last year on how to resuscitate heroin OD patients.
In the midst of all that, most regular officers (non-SWAT) are lucky to get 8 hours A YEAR at the range. The POST Academy gets them about 40 hours.
This isn't conjecture, this is fact. One of my good friends is a Range Master for a major department in LA and we discuss this often over beers. His agency is typical of agencies across LA that are on the HIGH END of training. Smaller departments like Addis might get eight hours of training TOTAL a year including firearms. I believe POST mandates 40 hours a year of "in-service" training and many agencies fake that paperwork or have their guys watch videos, etc. People want to demand professional and competent law enforcement yet they want to pay HS grads $35-50k a year. You don't get the cream of the crop at those rates. Pony up more tax dollars and get true professional LE or accept what we have now.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 11:07 am to jbgleason
No risk of criminal charges for even negligent homicide.
"Pay us more and we won't shoot our wives"
I love the arrogance.
"Pay us more and we won't shoot our wives"
I love the arrogance.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 11:14 am to jbgleason
quote:
This isn't conjecture, this is fact.
lol
Posted on 2/7/16 at 11:26 am to yellowfin
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Funeral will run about 25 k these days
on what fricking planet?
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