Only in the UK!

24 July 09 Only in the UK! A police officer and "Police Firearms Instructor" in the UK, during a 2007 "gun safety" lecture/demonstration, shot and seriously injured an attendee who was sitting in the audience! Litigation is still ongoing. The gun involved was a S&W M29 (44Mg). As with the Japanese, all firearms knowledge in the UK comes from police, and everyone else, naively watching American gangster movies. In news reports there were innumerable references to "Dirty Harry." Clueless journalists (who weren't there) jubilantly described the victim as being "blown halfway across the room." These guys really need to get out now and then! "Dummy rounds" provided for demonstrative purposes turned out to be real rounds, not that anyone in the UK could tell the difference. Not a single journalist has ever even asked why this officer pointed the gun at the victim in the first place. Even that basic component of safe gun-handling is apparently lost on the gun-phobic British. In classic "Who, me?" fashion, the deputy chief constable is quoted as saying, "'Whatever the individual actions involved in the shooting... Thames Valley Police has always accepted that the incident should never have happened." Nice to see Detective Obvious right on top of this! Watching gun-handling in the UK is painful, like watching toddlers playing with guns! They don't have a clue, but their historic haughtiness prevents them from humbly seeking any species of competent training. The once-proficient British Gun Culture is long-since dead and buried! Our British ancestors were proud, omnipotent, accomplished warriors. Their pathetic descendants are clueless, frightened sheep! Of their entire classic warrior repertoire, all that remains is arrogance! /John