The Four Big Rules

[treadlightly]

I figure about the most important thing to talk about to anyone new to self-defense is safety. I'm not an instructor or an authority, but you know how it goes - conversation sometimes turns to topics that have very specific channels of thought. Guns are like that.

The only credentials I have are that I've survived myself so far. I try to always remember that's "so far," because if I ease up I'll be a youtube hero and I don't want to go viral.

So it is for all of us. I don't know this guy's background, but I heard on Gun Talk he hasn't been enthusiastic about gun freedom. A Google search led to the news story of the anti-gun sheriff who maimed himself while cleaning a firearm.

http://thefunnybeaver.com/anti-gun-sher ... s-himself/

Here's hoping for his speedy recovery, and perhaps an awakening that a bullet in flight doesn't pay much attention to a badge. Nobody gets a pass on the four rules, which I'm guessing could have saved a lot of anguish here.

[K5GU]

My best wishes for the sheriff's speedy recovery so that he can then go get firearm training. I think it's typical for people who don't know how to manage a firearm (low information types) to be in the anti-gun circle.

[jed]

...after his personally-owned handgun....

So, it's ok for him to own a handgun but not the rest of us?

......a Glock pistol, discharged, shooting Johnstone in the hand.

Glocks are now capable of firing themselves? Must be the new Gen8 with the micro processor.
He certainly seems well versed in gun safety.