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kpete

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Wed Jan 22, 2014, 02:23 PM Jan 2014

Pro-Gun Republican Police Chief Accidentally Shoots Himself… Again

David Counceller, a police chief out of the Connersville Police Department in Indiana, didn’t have the greatest of extended weekends over the Martin Luther King holiday. In an epic stroke of irony, one of the often touted “good guys with a gun” managed to accidentally shoot someone: himself. While putting his own weapon back into its holster after comparing it to a newer model, the police chief accidentally caught the 40-caliber Glock on his clothes and shot himself in the leg. They often say there’s a first time for everything, but this definitely wasn’t it for Chief Counceller.

Counceller making a career out of shooting himself.

Even though Counceller is a veteran of the force, having served over 30 years in his current department alone, some may think it’s understandable to make such a mistake. After all, no one was harmed; so no harm, no foul. Right? Well that would be incredibly easier to believe if the chief hadn’t been in this same situation before. Around 15 years ago, Counceller managed to shoot himself in the hand, and that occurrence seems a bit worse than his latest shooting.

Keep in mind, his first accident occurred 15 years ago, and his police career has been just over 30 years long. This means that this well-trained “good guy with a gun” has managed to shoot himself in 15 year intervals since he got started. What’s even worse than that? His first accident occurred when he failed to check the chamber for a bullet when unloading the gun.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/01/22/counceller-accidentally-shoots-self/

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Pro-Gun Republican Police Chief Accidentally Shoots Himself… Again (Original Post) kpete Jan 2014 OP
Wanna bet he is also a member of the NRA? Bennyboy Jan 2014 #1
Was his name donco Jan 2014 #2
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