I was shocked to see the viral video of the FBI agent who accidentally shot someone while dancing in a Denver night club.  This guys has moves but loses his gun while doing a back flip.  Then, he accidentally fires a shot while quickly grabbing the pistol off of the floor.  Thankfully, no one was killed by his shot.

Observations:
1. When carrying a gun, you should always be aware its presence.  This should obviously prevent you from attempting back flips or doing a ninja warrior course.  If you need to do acrobatics while carrying, you should get a level 2 retention holster.
2. This would have been a non-event if the officer had exercised trigger finger discipline.  The second rule of safe gun handling is to "ALWAYS Keep Your Finger Off of the Trigger Until Ready to Shoot."  A gun will only shoot if the trigger is pressed.  This was a stressful situation and the agent wanted to quickly cover-up his mistake.  Unfortunately, he grabbed the gun by the trigger instead of correctly picking it up with his finger off of the trigger.  
​3. I notice that the agent picked up the gun with his left hand but then holsters his gun with his right.  He appears to be a right handed shooter but used his left hand to grab the gun since it was on his left side.  One good take-away for all of us is to practice safe gun handling with our non-dominant hand.   

In my last entry, I wrote about a Maryland high school shooting that was stopped thanks to the bravery of a School Resource Officer who confronted the shooter.    This occurred right after the Parkland shooting and hardly received any media coverage.  

The same scenario happened again last month.  We all heard about the horrific shooting in Santa Fe, TX  where a 17 year old young man killed ten people and injured ten others at a high school.  Did you hear there was also a school shooting in Illinois last month?   I'm not surprised if you didn't - I had to find coverage via the British network BBC!   

I'm so tired of mass shootings and attempted mass shootings.  The excerpt below is how they should all end:

"Neither the officer nor any students were hurt in Wednesday morning's confrontation at Dixon High School.  The suspect was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries."

I'm so thankful that Mark Dallas was at Dixon High School that day and was brave enough to protect the lives of all the innocent people there.  Guns save lives.