Bathroom Shooting Penalized
The lamestream media told you:
According to unnamed wire-service reports on 2/28/08, “A sheriff’s deputy who accidentally fired his handgun in a courthouse restroom in Fargo, N.D., has been suspended for eight days without pay. Authorities said the deputy also will receive a written reprimand. Police said the deputy had hung the gun by its trigger guard, and the weapon caught on the hook and discharged into the ceiling when he went to retrieve it.”
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Unaware that such gun laws existed, gun-rights activists may begin pushing for eight-day unpaid suspensions and written reprimands when they fire their guns into courthouse ceilings.
“We certainly don’t want deputies to get different penalties than the public, because we’re all equal,” an anonymous expert said. Whether the deputy’s punishment may have been too harsh is unknown, though typically, firing a gun in a courthouse is a felony. Bringing a gun into a courthouse is a felony for people who aren’t deputies in Fargo. Written reprimands for deputies, who are believed to be far better trained than common people, seemed an awfully stiff penalty to some observers.
The unfortunate officer must have become the butt of outrageous police humor in state locker rooms, for being such a crappy shooter and blowing a load into the bathroom ceiling. It is unknown if he will be eligible for trauma counseling, since the incident will probably dog the rest of his career. His name was not released, but may have been “John.”
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