Over at the National Review, Andrew “Mad Dog” McCarthy, stalwart defender of all things Donald, has these words of sympathy for the plight of FBI agent Chase Bishop, who accidentally shot some dude while dancing and, as a consequence, could even lose his job!
“It’s a shame. None of us who has a rap sheet of party-hearty, dumbass 29-year-old guy stuff can be thinking anything except ‘There but for the grace of God go I.’ As long as no one got seriously hurt, I hope Agent Bishop is as good as figuratively landing on his feet as he was literally on the dance floor. But he picked a bad time to do an asinine thing, and a lot of people will rightly say that, if he weren’t an FBI agent, he’d already be facing a state prosecution.”
Apparently, Agent Bishop had his piece tucked in the waistband of his pants. He did a back flip and the gun fell on the floor. When he picked it up the gun went off and shot some guy in the leg, but not a lot. No argument for gun control here, is there?
I wasn’t in the FBI, but I was in the U.S. Army and actually had training on the use of the old Army .45. We were taught, well, a lot of things, but one thing we were taught was not to carry a gun with a round in the chamber. Also, keeping the safety in the “on” position when you’re not actually using your weapon is considered a good idea.
It pretty much sounds like Bishop had a round in the chamber, and the safety in the “off” position, since his gun discharged when he picked it up, unless he somehow switched off the safety, chambered a round, and pulled the trigger at the same time. In any event, since this is how an FBI agent handles his weapon, it kind of makes you want to avoid the company of party-hearty 29-year-olds packing heat, or maybe even to conclude that party-hearty 29-year-olds shouldn’t be allowed to do so.
