@Quango said:
This story reminded me of this incident a few years ago:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmRN00KbCr8
FBI agent giving a gun-safety lecture to kids, shoots himself in the foot.
The first WTF is why would he take LIVE ammunition to a safety briefing..
The bigger WTF is that he loaded LIVE ammunition into a gun, in a classroom full of kids.
And this guy is in the FBI ??? That incident alone kind of proves he's in the wrong job.Even worse, to find this old video I googled "man shoots himself in leg during gun safety demonstration" ...
there are SEVERAL hits of different stories. No wonder the Darwin Awards is going strong.
Taking things out of order, he didn't load ammo into the gun most likely, he probably carried the gun loaded into the classroom. Doing such isn't really a WTF, I mean, that's the guy's job, to carry a gun. He's supposed to know what the hell he's doing, but he's a dumbass because he violated #3, colloquially stated as "keep your booger hook off the bang switch." He had NO business putting his finger inside the trigger guard; had he not done that, he never would have shot himself, because the gun has a safety. (If you watch the clip, the best part/the REAL WTF is how he tries to walk it off, ask if everyone is OK, and then continue the demo, asking a teacher to hand him a rifle. (To be fair, the odds that rifle was loaded are probably lower than for the pistol, but I can understand why he freaked everyone else out.)
If you're smart, you get your first ND out of the way at a range, and you're smart enough, then once is enough.
[editted to fix a typo.]