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Porter thought he had his training gun in his holster, not his real, loaded gun, his lawyer said.

First rule of firearms: Assume your firearm is still unloaded if it was unloaded the last the time you checked

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 104 points 1 year ago

He had to disregard all four rules of firearms at once to pull this one off.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Ah but you see, none of those rules individually can prevent all negligent discharges, so following any of them is definitionally nonsensical. What? Why yes I do be snorting Ivermectin

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago

rule 5 of firearm safety: abolish the police

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Remember when libs defended Alec Baldwin from this kind of shit?

They are so against guns, but the second someone who was mean to trump breaks all the rules, it's suddenly an accident.

I'm half expecting libs to start siding with the cops in these situations now for the same reasons.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Libs don't know there even are rules of firearm safety.

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

When pressed, they sure don't know what any of them are.

"You gotta break the gun down when you're not target shooting and bag each piece and sink it in the bottom of a different lake!"

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, that an ex-cop thinks rules don't apply to them

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 71 points 1 year ago

Cranking the "training accidents" dial up until the police are abolished.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

Lmao the fucking firearms instruction assumed the gun wasn't loaded, pointed it at something he didn't want to shoot, and pulled the fucking trigger.

Really cool the people teaching cops to safely use firearms gets a 0% on their real world firearms safety test.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

I don’t believe in IQ, but cops do, and they reject applicants with high IQ because they’re seen as too intelligent. So it shows where their priorities are.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Yup love to bring up to people that cops have successfully sued for the right to discriminate against people capable of complex thought.

[-] some_guy 25 points 1 year ago

Further, it wasn't a firearm training. Batons and shit.

They should have to secure live firearms in a locker when entering a training room, similar to what cops do when bringing a suspect in for booking. Ensures no fuck ups can occur.

Dumb as fuck cops and ex-cops out in the world making it a worse place for everyone.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago
[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago
[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago
[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

pre-emptively becoming a good cop

officer-down

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

He'd been making jokes leveled at the trainee all day. He'd brought a firearm into a place where they're expressly forbidden, in a training that did not involve firearms, and had up to a dozen police personnel there in case of any security issue happening, and he walks a few paces to swivel and fire into a group...

Computer, enhance.

...AND HE'S DOING THE SIDE GRIP TOO

Wouldn't it be funny if he had hit someone who wasn't the target of the joke? "My client did not intend to kill the victim; in fact, my client was intending to aim at someone else."

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

i mean, if this is the kind of thing we can expect from police training, maybe i gotta support all this additional money for cop training that Biden is doing.

biden-harbinger

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago
[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

who let Alec Baldwin train cops

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Lmao at every cop except the one scattering and not rendering aid.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I mean he killed her IDK if the dunk tank is the right place for this

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

It's pretty funny

[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

yeah more like /c/bloomer content amirite

[-] SuperNovaCouchGuy2@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

lmao it looks like he tried to do one of those cool spinny moves and curve the bullet, +5 pts for style! officer-down

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What a fuckin prick, yeah hop up and down you piece of shit, that's all on you

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Fucking jackass

[-] aFairlyLargeCat@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

The spirit of Dorner possessed him for a moment

dorneryes-hahaha-yes-l

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