Miami-Dade County Schools officer arrested, 3-year-old son shot himself with her gun: Police
Miami-Dade County Schools officer arrested, 3-year-old son shot himself with her gun: Police
A Miami-Dade Schools police officer was arrested after her 3-year-old son found her gun and shot himself in the left foot with the weapon, police say.
When detectives searched the mother's home, they found a recently fired gun and the officer's service radio in plain view on the kitchen counter, a police report says. There was no secure gun case, nor a holster present in the area, the report continued.
Jail this piece of shit. Also, this is who gets to exercise authority over students. Wtf
The cop at my daughter's former middle school left his gun on the sink in the school bathroom. Thankfully, the kid that found it told the office. Amazingly, he got fired for it, not just paid administrative leave.
Still, I'm glad we got her out of that shithole.
The only thing that can stop a bad 3 year old with a gun is a good 3 year old with a gun. Arm our toddlers today.
Kinderguardians!
Don't make fun of gun ownership like this. I'm from a third world country where innocent people gets killed by the police everyday if they don't receive bribe from their family. I think legalizing gun ownership is the only way to fix this problem.
"I'm from a third world country"
Trump literally in the username.
Yep checks out lol
I’m genuinely surprised when very little children manage to fire a gun. The safety is usually quite sturdy, the slide is usually far more robust than movies make it appear, and even the trigger can be hefty depending on the gun.
The gun would have to be chambered with the safety off for a three year old to pull the trigger effectively.
Which, to me, speaks of gross negligence that warrants a strong punishment.
The reason many kids shoot themselves is due to many design choices of these guns.
1- no safety, as in theory the officer's gun should only be drawn in life or death situations.
2- a round is already chambered for the same reason as above
3- the trigger pull is probably too heavy for young children to pull it with their pointer finger. This ends up with them reorienting the gun to where the muzzle is pointed at their chest and they use their thumbs to depress the trigger.
It's horrific and every employer whose employee's have firearms should provide a safe of some sort and require it's use while off duty.
The thumb on the trigger pull makes so much sense. I remember the first time I fired a pistol being surprised at how difficult it was to squeeze the trigger. I'd fired a .22 rifle quite a bit and the pistol felt ridiculous by comparison.
Most modern pistols no longer have a mechanical safety separate from the trigger.
Most modern pistols are intended to be carried with a cartridge in the chamber.
Most modern pistols are designed around being handled, stored, and used, without human error.
It might have a trigger safety, but those are pretty damn useless.
The Glock has 3 safeties that prevent it from firing unintentionally. They are extremely reliable but they do not have a locking safety. A locking safety is great when the gun is being handled by someone that shouldn't but this should never be the case. The #1 safety on a gun is the owner. No amount of mechanism on a gun can override the owner. A gun is a tool. I am all for more gun control because there is a gun problem but there is also a people problem and we can't just blame everything on the guns.
Yup. The safety can vary, but there absolutely was a round loaded up in the chamber.
That parent is lucky it was the foot, and not the head.
Miami-Dade Schools PD "The largest school police department in the nation"