http://www.local6.com/news/3254509/detail.html DEA Agent Shoots Self During Gun Safety Class POSTED: 11:27 am EDT April 30, 2004 ORLANDO, Fla. -- A federal drug agent shot himself in the leg during a gun safety presentation to children and his bosses are investigating. The Drug Enforcement Administration agent, whose name was not released, was giving a gun safety presentation to about 50 adults and students organized by the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association, witnesses and police said. He drew his .40-caliber duty weapon and removed the magazine, according to the police report. Then he pulled back the slide and asked someone in the audience to look inside the gun and confirm it wasn't loaded, the report said. Witnesses said the gun was pointed at the floor and when he released the slide, one shot fired into the top of his left thigh. "The kids screamed and started to cry," said Vivian Farmer, who attended the presentation with her 13-year-old nephew. "Everyone was pretty shaken up," Farmer said. "But the point of gun safety hit home. Unfortunately, the agent had to get shot. But after seeing that, my nephew doesn't want to have anything to do with guns." The agent was treated at Orlando Regional Medical Center after the April 9 shooting and returned to work, DEA special agent Joe Kilmer said. Police ruled the shooting was an accident, but the DEA headquarters in Washington was still investigating, Kilmer said.
That is just too funny in some ways but it could of been worse. But I bet they make that a mandatory part of the presentation. Gotta shoot your self in the leg. It bring the point home.
Listen, I understand the funny side of this story,BUT mistakes do happen. Nobody on this earth is perfect. It's just a shame these things happen. I read everyday about how somebody was killed in an automobile "accident" the person at fault is never charged,but a life is still gone because of an "accident". People are too busy and too into ther own little thing to actually think about what there doing while lives are being lost. I see it every day,more and more people not paying attention to what their doing. It's a shame but I quess there is nothing to do about it.ou:
Out here the officers are told never NEVER pull out your weapon in a class nomatter what!! (defence is different) never for show and tell
anyone remember drug show n tell in school? When the cops would show up at school with a case full of pipes n bongs showing you what to look for. Then they would light up a joint and pass it around the room in a bowl. So we would know what it smelled like. I wonder if they still do that anymore? But showing off guns in ayway is dumb.
All too often, people who work with weapons daily get complacent and don't feel the need to focus attention on weapon safety. It only takes one shot, and youre a goner. We lost several soldiers in Iraq, because they didnt respect the weapon.
