Dancing FBI agent loses gun during backflip, accidentally shoots bar patron (w/ VIDEO)

[Lee-Lee]

7. Yep, it's a negligent discharge

There are “accidental” discharges but those are genuinely rare. 99% of the time it’s at least in part negligence.

A true accident can happen, like if you are hunting, see the game, take your safety off and the ground gives way under you and as you fall a branch gets into the trigger guard.

That would be an accident. You were doing everything right and a bad event happened to you anyway.

But if you were walking around with the safety off and it happens, then it’s at least in part negligent. Or if your finger is inside the trigger guard walking and you fall, that’s negligent in how you carried the weapon. Most cases are more like that.

It’s the same for driving. There are true “accidents” where nobody is as fault and bad stuff just happens. But in almost all cases your auto “accidents” were preventable and caused by one or more persons negligence.

In this case there wasn’t an accident. He failed to maintain control of his handgun, then when he went to retrieve it he picked it up with a finger on the trigger.

That’s just negligence pure and simple.