Comments on: Friday Rewind: Gun Safety Fail

By: protection asset

protection asset — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:06:36 +0000

crap, learn it right!

By: makondo

makondo — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:49:41 +0000

but the kids are hillarious – they started laughing instantly!
ACAB (some of them are actually more stupid then others!)

By: guns arizona

guns arizona — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:49:19 +0000

They are all important, but the rule of “keep all guns pointed in a safe direction” and “don’t touch the trigger until you are ready to shoot” are over-lapping. Even if one is broken, if the other is followed no injury will result.

By: ajsflks

ajsflks — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:53:46 +0000

Did he shoot his foot? It looked like he was limpingg xP

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:38:31 +0000

professional enough my ass

By: Henry Bowman

Henry Bowman — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:32:35 +0000

Actually (and this is really funny) this guy later sued the person who took the home video, claiming professional defamation from the widespread ridicule he received. Also, because he was an undercover cop and the video put his face out there. Now, I’m not an “only one professional,” but I would think that just getting up in front of a class of inner city kids and saying “Hi, I’m an undercover cop” isn’t the brightest move to begin with if you expect to keep your professional anonymity.

By: Henry Bowman

Henry Bowman — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:29:10 +0000

Watch closely. He opens the gun, locks it back, shows it to a second person off-camera to verify the chamber is empty (a widely recommended safety precaution), waves it in the air, closes the slide, then shoots himself. His error was to leave a loaded magazine in the gun, and the second person didn’t catch that either. Obviously, he was originally carrying the gun with a loaded magazine and an empty chamber. Not dropping the magazine FIRST is a fool’s mistake, and not seeing the magazine there when checking empty is just plain carelessness on both parties’ parts.

The fact that this bozo was a semi-literate COP is not lost on civilian gun owners. This is why when gun grabbers say the police should be the “only ones” who own guns, we play this video and sing along when this guy says “I am the only one…!”

By: StreakyTSC

StreakyTSC — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:15:26 +0000

Why? The ones with College Degrees aren’t to bright, either…
You have to be at the corner of College Drive near the seminary on the UofS Campus to see the way Tomorrow’s Leaders handle themselves with traffic…

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:20:20 +0000

yep, right next to intelligent americans

By: elvendur

elvendur — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:55:55 +0000

i would have to disagree with this “fail” if it is being targeted as the speakers fail.. he didn’t shoot himself or anyone, which is always a good thing. safety first: no pointing.

By: tricky

tricky — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:22:13 +0000

*intelligent handgun owners* must be the very definition of an oxymoron

By: Starby

Starby — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:55:49 +0000

I remember reading an article about this guy: he actually sued the law enforcement agency he was working for at the time: something about they should have controlled the leaking of this video — now he was a laughingstock and couldn’t do undercover work anymore since he was all over the internet.
Yes, OF COURSE, he won.

By: Zeide

Zeide — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:56:58 +0000

Does that count as a work injury? If so that is a win for him, free money and vacation time

By: 2 short

2 short — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:56:44 +0000

Um I think he knows those rules already.. He’s a professional

By: chunk

chunk — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:32:45 +0000

They did that on purpose its suppose to be a joke that’s why he said i’m the only one professional enough! it’s a joke ha ha very funny mother f*cker

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:43:08 +0000

And this is why I don’t respect Police.

And this is also why Police should have a college degree – to weed out the retarded ones.

By: Korilian

Korilian — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:11:22 +0000

oh right. Never mind.

By: Korilian

Korilian — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:08:56 +0000

They’ve shown this one before.

By: William

William — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:34:17 +0000

Welcome to April 2004!

By: cinia

cinia — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:26:05 +0000

I think this single video is my all-time favorite fail. Thanks for bringing it back again!

By: Starcat

Starcat — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:38:09 +0000

That, or he was demonstrating that even a professional can’t be SURE it’s not loaded.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:48:47 +0000

“I’m the only one in this room professional enough to fail my own foot off”

By: mitch

mitch — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:27:11 +0000

he knew it was loaded they do it now to show kids not to think they are loaded they did it for my brothers hunters ed class

By: Jonny

Jonny — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:42:05 +0000

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By: transistor09

transistor09 — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:08:06 +0000

I like to use my rong one

By: eckostream

eckostream — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:17:16 +0000

I doubt they would shoot a real bullet in a room full of student just to make a point… so unless he shot a blank shot, this is definitely just stupidity at his best and not a set-up…

By: -Wolf-

-Wolf- — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:37:33 +0000

I shot the sheriff.. but the deputy shot himself…!

By: -Wolf-

-Wolf- — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:36:13 +0000

I think he was using dum dums…

By: adude

adude — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:05:52 +0000

uhm a lot of police men are thug-like and what makes you think he’s a thug?

By: adude

adude — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:04:11 +0000

i guess guns can kill people without the help of humans so…. guns do kill people…. or maybe stupid people with guns kill people ….any way it would be a good idea not to let stupid people have guns

By: Laurence

Laurence — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:56:20 +0000

You guys know he did that to prove a point right? It’s a common stunt pulled by police officer in charge of teaching gun safety to kids. I saw the exact same video, with the exact punch line (guy shooting when he say’s he is the only professionnal able to handle it.) except it was a different officer. The text is almost a verbatim.

The point of the video is to show that professionally handle or not a gun is always dangerous. (Or something like that, scraing kid is funny.)

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:15:41 +0000

wrong- never assume another person has not made a possibly life-changing mistake.

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:14:11 +0000

a few years ago when i knew nothing about gun safety, i knew more about gun safety than this cretin…

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:01:17 +0000

LET ME SHOW YA SOMETHING!!!

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:45:34 +0000

anybody want a peanut?

By: Malfeasant

Malfeasant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:41:50 +0000

and just as important, always point the gun in a safe direction, or i sort of prefer it said this way, never point a gun at anything you wouldn’t want shot.

By: Casimir

Casimir — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:16:22 +0000

This is why they say to treat a gun as though it’s ALWAYS loaded, even when you “know” it’s not.

By: bobzilla

bobzilla — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:00:48 +0000

This fail is offensive…
to intelligent handgun owners world-wide…

By: Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:24:03 +0000

There is no such thing as a Glock 40. There are Glock models chambered in .40 S&W (Glock 22 is the common one).

Also, what kind of self-respecting Police department hires thugs like that to be gun safety instructors?

By: lostmemory

lostmemory — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:18:26 +0000

wasn’t this posted years ago?

By: Failhuman

Failhuman — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:13:43 +0000

sorry im a criple i only write wit ma rite foot

By: notolaf

notolaf — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:39:24 +0000

Looked like a win to me — most successful “always assume the gun is loaded” lecture ever. You know, without actually killing or injuring anyone.

By: mr shrike

mr shrike — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:02:32 +0000

That guy looks a lot like the guy who came to my old middle school years ago who talked about the same exact thing and pretended to shoot himself as part of his demonstration on how unsafe guns are… sort of what “np” stated earlier. Could just be a coincidence, too.

By: bobobobb

bobobobb — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:01:16 +0000

what do you mean different? hammerless? Glocks are generally semi-automatic pistols, but you can make them fully automatic. Im not sure how, but im sure that they are LE only. Also, the only controversy i remember about glocks is that they were one of the first gun manufacturers to make pistols with FRP/ABS plastics, and there was a rumor that you could get through metal detectors with them (which is 100% false becuse the slide, barel, firing pin, trigger, and all the niftly little springs are still made of steel).

Anyways, he fails for several reasons. Either he did not bother to check the chamber for the round that was obviousely loaded, or no one bothered to eject the loaded magazine……….. His fault though, because he didnt check. BTW treat any, and every gun as if it was loaded.

By: Hollow

Hollow — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:59:39 +0000

I agree with Screen. I’ll add that if it was meant to scare kids away, he would had done this at the end of the demonstration, after giving them advice and telling them not to play with guns.
In the present case, it just goes “This is a glock 40… BAM!”. It would be more effective to actually tell the kids “don’t touch a gun, it can go off unexpectedly” first.

(BTW I know guns don’t go off unexpectedly. I just assume telling this to children is the best way to scare them from touching a gun. In my experience, teaching a kid or teenager how to use something is the best way to have them use it and think “I know how this works”.)

By: Hollow

Hollow — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:51:55 +0000

Just a thought, but doesn’t this incident has something to do with the fact that glocks operate differently than other automatic handguns? Something to do with a bullet being in the chamber at a point when an automatic handgun would not have a bullet in the chamber.

I think there’s a bit of a controversy about glocks because the company refers to them as automatic but they don’t operate the same way as other automatic handguns.

Just looking for someone to confirm all of the above. I don’t know much about glocks. I just heard the whole “glocks are the best handguns” argument is BS and people use this argument to show off.

By: The Big Black Man

The Big Black Man — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:44:39 +0000

This is what happens when people hold their guns sideways….

By: Yeh Man

Yeh Man — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:44:48 +0000

STOP SAYING THAT!

By: Ajohnson153

Ajohnson153 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:18:31 +0000

This moron forgot one of the most important gun safety rules. Always assume a gun is loaded unless you have unloaded it yourself. And even after you remove the clip make sure to clear the chamber.

By: failinator/co owner of the ztn/assylum escapee/janitor superspy

failinator/co owner of the ztn/assylum escapee/janitor superspy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:05:22 +0000

Return to the first fail NOW!!!!