Do you see what can happen if you don’t keep that cartridge in your pocket?

Just another prime example of why LEO's should not be allowed to carry a gun.

I find it very hypocritical in all the corporate anti gun moves as well as the anti gun groups they all feel safe that government employees can carry a gun.

(this post is only partially sarcastic )

It does not mitigate the dumbassery by one or two off-duty officers, but the thread title is misleading. The officer had an ND while trying to draw his weapon. The thread title leads one to believe that one intentionally shot the other and that is not the case.

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
Just another prime example of why LEO's should not be allowed to carry a gun.

I find it very hypocritical in all the corporate anti gun moves as well as the anti gun groups they all feel safe that government employees can carry a gun.

(this post is only partially sarcastic )

Please check out this link then reconsider that comment

https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2019

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Originally posted by HayesGreener:

the thread title is misleading . . . The officer had an ND while trying to draw his weapon. The thread title leads one to believe that one intentionally shot the other and that is not the case.

Yup. Borders on click-bait.

Why do I think 'Yakety Sax' should have been playing in the back ground as this unfolded?

Reads quite a bit like an incident I had several years ago.

But I wasn’t a cop, the lady with the ball bat that followed me most of the way home and blocked me in the first place I pulled into wasn’t a cop, and I didn’t shoot my self on the draw.

Follow and corner someone and the fucking bets are off and the game advances to the next level. The only thing that changes that fact is is you’ve got the blue and red lights even then, people get shot. I know there’s supposedly no such thing as an off duty cop, but this is an example of a time when someone should have decided to call the ones on duty and clock out before he got forever clocked out. This news article could have ended with one or both of them dead quite easily.

Officer ND needs to rethink his equipment if he’s bungling his draw when it matters.

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
Just another prime example of why LEO's should not be allowed to carry a gun.

I find it very hypocritical in all the corporate anti gun moves as well as the anti gun groups they all feel safe that government employees can carry a gun.

(this post is only partially sarcastic )

Those guys sound like badge bullies.

Simple solution: if you're off duty, you're off duty. No badge or gun will be carried.

It is just another example of proof that in any sufficiently large group there will be a few yo-yos. Most Law Enforcement Officers are very professional and simply wouldn’t consider doing something this stupid. LEOs are still human beings though, some are more professional than others, and most, if not all have some days that are better than others. Kinda like the rest of us...

To reply to those that took offense to my comment.

I expected you to. I have to first say I have great respect for those in law enforcement. They are doing a job that I could never do. With that said my real point was only that I am insulted that many people feel uncomfortable or even afraid if I carry a gun but have no such qualms about an LEO doing so.

As for the original post, if this was a negligent discharge when the officer was drawing his weapon, why was the officer drawing the weapon in the first place?

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:

As for the original post, if this was a negligent discharge when the officer was drawing his weapon, why was the officer drawing the weapon in the first place?

because in his eyes he was being chased by a crazy guy in a faster car who was side by side with him, and he feared for his life.

pretty simple.

His mistakes were first driving badly (if that's really what occurred) and second, the ND on the draw.

As for the other guy, his mistake was trying to do traffic enforcement in his personal car, and engaging in a pursuit of sorts in said personal car. Imagine the liability he was taking on by doing this.