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His career needs to be over regardless.
If he was drinking I hope he ends up criminally charged.
I suspect he was. He grabbed the gun with his finger on the trigger. That’s totally unsafe and absolutely not how FBI agents are trained, so that leads me to believe he was intoxicated in some form.
The way he tries to play it off and doesn’t immediately try to assess if anyone was injured also leads me to believe he was intoxicated.
He also chose his holster poorly and his style of carry poorly for the kind of activity he was engaged in, if he wasn’t intoxicated.
I’m as pro-gun and pro-concealed carry as you will find here. But I do not give a damm who you are, from Joe Blow who lives in the poorest part of the poorest to to an agent in the highest law enforcement branch in the land- the moment you have one drink, one toke, or one pill that impairs your cognitive ability or motor skills you shouldn’t have a gun on you, period. No excuses and no exceptions. I drive that point in hard repeatedly when I teach CCW and firearms safety classes.
And even when not intoxicated you have a responsibility to maintain your actions safely and modify your behaviors to fit the fact you are carrying. Want to carry? Then don’t drink and don’t be doing stupid dance moves. Want to drink and do stupid dance moves? Then don’t carry.
Millions of people make those decisions responsibly every day. A few blow it, like him, every now and then. He shouldn’t be trusted in any position of law enforcement again.
On exit- the more I think about it, the most damming thing here is by all account he didn’t attempt at all to render aid to the man who was shot. Even if he was totally sober and it was just his negligence the fact he just walks away and does not rendaer aid to the wounded man is the most reprehensible thing here.
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