Trooper accidentally kills wife.....

[brice1967]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/10/trooper-shot-wife-pregnant-pennsylvania_n_4934916.html

Really?  A trooper accidentally killed his wife while cleaning his gun?  I've heard a few of these stories lately and I don't know as if I buy them all.  And you'd think that a trooper, a guy who carries a gun for a living, has to go to the range a qualify on a regular basis, probably cleans his gun on a regular basis.  With all of that experience, one would believe that he of all people knows that you cannot properly clean a "loaded" gun.

I guess it is remotely possible that this trooper had gotten complacent, but even then you have to wonder what his finger was doing inside the trigger guard....

There are a lot of fundamentals that got dropped here that would have "prevented" this incident.  Seems as if the trooper just missed them.  

[brice1967]

I was present at a situation where there could have been a death.  In fact, the barrel of a shotgun was dragged across everyone in the room, and then the gun discharged....  Since that day, I have been hyper vigilant.

[R Glass]

This one act of carelessness will haunt this man for the rest of his life.
People have a tendency to become complacent when they are constantly around guns. I see it all the time at the shooting range. A friend that I have been hunting with for years shot a hole through the roof of our camp while cleaning his 270. He felt horrible about it and was going to go home but I talked him into staying. He apologized all weekend saying “I could have very easily killed one of you,” and he could have.