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Important to point out that it wasn't her service weapon. An officer allowing their service weapon to be used by others would be an additional serious violation of law.
This was a weapon that she purchased from the Sheriff's office when they were upgrading gear. It was, at one point, her service weapon but at the time of the shooting it was just a personally owned firearm.
It's an important distinction since this kind of misinformation implies that she was careless in securing her service weapon.
Her son was an adult and had legal access to a legally owned firearm and chose to kill people. Trying to make it about his mother because she's a cop is a pointless distraction.
Source: Public statements by Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil
In the interest of truth this is good, but it does not change my view on law enforcement or their incapabilities.
Of course, but fight them with facts.
Misinformation is in nobody's best interest.
Correct, an officer of the law should be expected to understand safe gun handling and storage practices. Being a cop should elevate the standards you’re held to, not fucking lower them lmao.
Safe gun handling and storage practices ensure that, in the event of an emergency (like a home invasion), authorized people can readily access the weapons that you have stored. Firearms have no value for home defense if they require the owner to be physically present when they're accessed... home invaders are not going to wait for your mother to drive home and open the gun safe.
This wasn't a minor child, or some random person breaking into her house to steal firearms. It is perfectly reasonable to store weapons and allow the adults who live in the household to have access to them for emergencies.
The person who is in the wrong here is the man who took weapons into a public place and started shooting.
Eh, given how many other times cops have been way too lenient with right wing terrorists versus their left wing equivalents(and basically anyone else outwardly left wing but that’s another matter), I’m not sure that earns them any leniency here.
Yeah, but apparently, the weapon was easy enough to access. Something a cop should have a higher standard of.
And yet there is a lower standard for them even after leaving the force
Your source is incredibly biased to take as fact at face value.
That doesn't mean that people are entitled to invent an alternate reality.
It's one thing if there was any evidence to the contrary, but to just assume that they're lying without any evidence is just social media brainrot
It's not brainrot. NBC's headline says it was her service weapon.
It's just clickbait from NBC, even if it is technically accurate. From the article:
After the Parkland Massacre, Convicted Criminal Fraudster and Florida Governor Rick Scott pushed the state legislature to raise the age of gun ownership to 21. Since then, he has spent his career, now Senator, trying to change the subject whenever gun control comes up. He doesn't want anyone to remember him as the Republican governor who tried to reduce school shootings through common sense gun control.
Super Troll DeSatan not only lowered the age of handgun ownership to 18, he also abolished the old concealed carry law that required a four-hour class to get a concealed carry permit. Any 18 year old in Florida can buy a gun, stick it in their waistband, and walk around in public.
So this guy was legally allowed to possess this gun, and carry it. Currently, possession of a firearm is still illegal on a Florida college campus, but MAGA state senator Randy Fine (now a US congressman) filed legislation in February to make it legal to carry a gun on campus. Florida Republican legislators have filed a similar bill almost every year, and it always fails to pass. Now they'll say that if guns were allowed on campus, someone would have stopped this guy, and it will pass.
I'm not sure I follow, what difference does it make? He used her weapon, whatever name you put on it to kill people, because she did not store her weapons properly...
Whether it's her service weapon or emotional support weapon, it kills all the same....