Mick,

The point was made that guns are perfectly safe when entrusted to them with the proper training, like cops, for example. Real life examples demonstrate that that is not always the case.

I'm sure that the proportion of cops who pull a stupid blunder like that is very small and I'm certainly not advocating disarming cops. The point that I'm making is that training and good intentions are not necessarily enough.

If I hadn't seen the news report this morning, I wouldn't have brought it up. I did see it though, and it is relevant to the discussion.

Jerry