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Comments on: Negligence Not An Accident https://whynow.dumka.us/2016/08/10/negligence-not-an-accident/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:50:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2016/08/10/negligence-not-an-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-82605 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 18:50:19 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=37353#comment-82605 We didn’t use orange rubber guns in my academy, we used ‘retired’ service weapons with the firing pins removed and the handles painted red. I ‘starred’ in a number of ‘Shoot/Don’t Shoot’ episodes and we used blanks in the films, but you had a clear view of where the wad was going.

Everyone involved had to clear & check in their weapons before they entered the set and woe betide anyone who forgot about their ankle holster or the tiny auto loader in their back pocket.

As my old firearms instructor at the academy said – you should never get used to carrying a firearm.

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2016/08/10/negligence-not-an-accident/comment-page-1/#comment-82603 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 10:12:41 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=37353#comment-82603 Yeah, Jim Wright was practically apoplectic about this one, because he *taught* this kind of course before, and so many rules were broken as to go far past the realm of “accident” right into negligence. For one thing, there wasn’t supposed to be a real gun anywhere in sight. This kind of exercise is *always* done with dummy guns. Always. If a real gun is used, it’s cleared by *multiple* people, but standard protocol is the orange rubber guns. Thus negligent homicide. Not that it’ll happen. The boys in blue protect their own…

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