I wouldn't be so hard on cops. There are knuckeheads in any field. Don't let this guy convince you that all of them are like this.
Perhaps the reason why this goof was lecturing a classroom was because their better officers were appropriately assigned to be in the field. I wouldn't call him a "bad-ass" - just a knucklehead who should know the rules of basic gun-safety.
In all my years I had only one AD ("accidental discharge") of my weapon. That was when some lousy gunsmith botched the trigger-job and magazine disconnect of my BHP. I dropped the slide release and the hammer came forward with the slide! Naturally I had the gun pointed toward a safe spot on the ground (basic rule of safety) when the thing went BOOM!
So, unlike that poor soul, I still have all my toes.
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