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Were these guys even taught basic gun safety?

CW: Gun violence

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[-] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago

"counting or not counting gang violence?"

[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean... cops are technically just state funded gangs 🤷

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

thier union is pratically a gang/mafia that can strongarm the cities, so technically not a true union.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 month ago

Everyone knows the first rule of gun safety is 'Just have fun'

[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 1 month ago
[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

And most important: Remember to have fun!

[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

So this is the version cops take.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I love hyenas. And "shoot at noises" is making me full on belly laugh.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Also consistent with gnoll behavior.

[-] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

5; don't be a moron (or a cop)

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

that hyena is about to flamethrower a noise. That ship has sailed.

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 39 points 1 month ago

More cops should play this game

[-] decended_being@midwest.social 26 points 1 month ago

But that officer's gun goes off

Some crazy copaganda passive voice in play here.

[-] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is very traumatic to those of us who have lost friends in a freak gasoline fight accident. You people are so insensitive.

[-] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago
[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

It's a reference to a movie with Ben Stiller in it. (I only remember two things from the movie: that line and Ben Stiller)

[-] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago
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[-] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 month ago

Pigs are fucking dumbass bottom feeders. And the state gives them weapons. Preventing an accidental discharge is actually quite easy when you don’t treat your firearm like a fucking toy. I’ve yet to have one cos I don’t treat my firearm like a fucking toy.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Cop jokingly shoots his coworker while accidentally pointing guns at each other

[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

Your pfp really fits to this scenario

[-] dotCody@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Piggies killing piggies. Yay!

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

Wasn't there some silly thing Hasan said about how the police didn't want anyone too smart?

Something tells me there'll be a next time.

[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

This wasn't the first time it won't be the last.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah I think he's referencing this.

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[-] dotCody@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Darn it! 😤

[-] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Cops...can do good things?

[-] SockOlm@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

critical support

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago

i expect nothing less from cops.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago

Oh, “disciplinary action has been taken”. So everybody has learned their lessons and everything is okay. The problem has been solved. Great! /s

[-] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

And it only took the judicial system 10 months to figure it out.

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 11 points 1 month ago

I've heard (no idea where, might be fake) that the NYPD used to get special Glocks that had a very heavy trigger. They probably had a few incidents like this they wanted to address.

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[-] 1D10@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I really wish the titles were more accurate, it should read "Officer shoots coworker while negligently handling service weapon"

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 10 points 1 month ago
[-] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

You know what would make a lot of sense in this situation? Saying that he feared for his life. Why not try the excuse out this one time when you shot an adult pointing a loaded firearm at your face for fun?

[-] Inucune@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

When you can be too smart to be hired, this is what exists under the high water mark.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you put all the cops in a room, how long until there's only one left

Edit: this is actually a really good premise for a movie

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Or just in general as like, a good idea.

[-] zephiriz@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  1. Handle every firearm as if it's loaded, even if you think/know its not.
  2. Do not point it at anything you are not willing to destroy.
  3. Finger off the trigger till you are ready to shoot.
  4. Know your target and what is behind it.

Edit: Not for the light of heart. Risky click. https://youtu.be/PDQHF1ZyPfI

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Some people think guns are fun to shoot.

I think guns are fun to shoot, too, but gun safety has to come first.

Even if you're anti-cop/ACAB, you should know your way around guns, or at least understand basic firearm safety. Even people who are afraid of guns (and especially them) should be able to pick up a random handgun they find in the street some poor kid could accidentally use on themselves/their friends/siblings, disarm it, and even disable it. If we're in a fight and you drop your handgun, I can quickly unload it and pull the slide off, and throw both in opposite directions. You're not firing it any time soon. You'll have to find all the parts first and you'll have to know how to put it together. I'm not a tough guy. I'm a nerd who builds phones and used to mod phones (until I got sick of that shit and just got an iPhone). I can also handle guns, and I shoot pretty good (though, only ever at paper targets). You don't have to love guns. But make them your friend. If you don't want the gun to work for you, make it not work for someone who might use it on you. In old cartoons, they'd just bend the barrel U-shaped. You can't do that IRL. You can make it just as useless though.

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago

"Link expired" Post not even 30 minutes old.

[-] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I fixed it

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The copaganda is strong enough that this is unquestioningly portrayed as an "accident".

But, when someone aims a weapon (or vaguely similar object) at a cop, the cop almost always starts shooting. Dude might've feel disrespected or intimidated or whatever. Maybe not just joking around.

[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

Go to any police station bathroom that the cops use. There is ALWAYS at least one bullet hole in a stall where a cop was fucking around with their sidearm while taking a shit.

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[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

If only the natural selection worked on both of them...

[-] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

Seriously, the first guy was clearly joking around because he didn't actually pull the trigger but the guy who actually fired the shot had to go through serious conscious decision to release the safety and pull the trigger, what was he thinking?? They're both idiots and glad at least the guy who fired the shot was expelled from his job.

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

You think cops keep the safety on? Trigger control is for pussies

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