{"id":2795,"date":"2008-06-30T07:22:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2010-07-07T20:13:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:13:17","slug":"theyre-always-loaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2795","title":{"rendered":"They’re Always Loaded"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in college, we had a scene with a pistol.\u00a0 We used a starter pistol; the chamber held only caps, and the barrel didn’t even have a hole for a bullet in <\/em>it.\u00a0 And still, the professor\/director insisted that, on stage, we\u00a0 never <\/em>point it directly at <\/em>anyone.\u00a0 “They’re always loaded”.<\/p>\n

Which is a familiar notion to anyone that’s taken a gun safety close.<\/p>\n

And – you’d think – to a French marine.\u00a0 But apparently not<\/a>.<\/p>\n

French sergeant accidentally shoots 17 at a hostage-rescue demonstration:<\/p>\n

The sergeant opened up with an assault rifle, firing live rounds instead of blanks into a crowd of hundreds of visitors watching a hostage-taking exercise Sunday at the base near the southwestern city of Carcassonne<\/span>.<\/p>\n

A man who witnessed the shooting told AFP that “suddenly, people were falling, we thought it was part of the exercise, and then we saw blood.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sergeant was playing a terrorist in a show being put on for a crowd.<\/p>\n

A senior army officer insisted that the incident was almost certainly the result of an “unintentional” error.Fifteen civilians were among those injured, including the three-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl who were both operated on overnight and were described Monday as being in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

…The use of the live rounds was “99.9 percent” likely to be “an unintentional fault,” said Colonel Benoit Royal, the head of the French army’s information service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hope everyone recovers.<\/p>\n

Wonder if Nancy Pelosi will try to blame this on Heller<\/em>?
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