http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/23/1405092/-Civilian-guarding-military-recruitment-center-accidentally-fired-his-gun-while-showing-it-off?detail=email
Christopher A. Reed, 28, of Lancaster, was charged with discharging a firearm in the city limits, and was issued a summons to appear in Fairfield County Municipal Court on Tuesday, according to the police incident report.
Reed told the officer who responded that he was standing, holding his AR-15 rifle in front of the military recruiting station to guard the personnel inside when someone approached him and asked if he could take a look at the weapon. Reed agreed to show him, and while he was trying to clear the ammunition from the weapon, he accidentally fired into the asphalt pavement.
The only damage was a hole in the pavement. The rifle was taken from Reed pending his appearance in court, the incident report says.
It's no wonder military brass are telling recruiters to treat these guys as security threats:
“I’m sure the citizens mean well, but we cannot assume this in every case and we do not want to advocate this behavior,” according to the Army Command Operations Center-Security Division letter, which was authenticated by the service.
Recruiters were ordered not to interact or acknowledge the armed civilians, who have been greeted by a mix of concern, indifference and gratitude by the public.
“If questioned by these alleged concerned citizens, be polite, professional and terminate the conversation immediately and report the incident to local law enforcement …,” the command advised.
this is a result of allowing arming in our streets by those who don't know what makes the gun they're holding fire. he could have just as easily killed an innocent American citizen. i feel it necessary to point out that had this been a Black guy guarding our recruitment station same motive same dumb scenario where would it have gone, on or before police arrival we don't know but we do sadly have a plethora of potential outcomes to wonder about.
