what could possibly go wrong with armed volunteers guarding recruitment centers...A LOT

[demtenjeep]

http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/story/news/local/2015/07/23/armed-volunteer-fires-shot/30574117/

LANCASTER – No one was injured in an accidental shooting near a U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Center on Thursday.

An armed volunteer guarding the U.S. Army Recruiting Center accidentally fired a shot just after noon, according to Lancaster police.

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I was out here and was talking to a guy who wanted to look at my AR-15," said Reed in an interview with the Eagle-Gazette. "I was trying to clear the weapon and hand it over to him when it went off. I thought it was empty and must have missed it."

Reed said he had the gun pointed down at the time and the bullet hit the pavement

[Journeyman]

1. He was handing it over to some guy who asked to look at it . . .

There's an all-star guard: Happy to bring the weapon that the whack-o uses to attack the recruiting station. And so considerate, too: All the whack-o had to bring is bullets. The only thing that went wrong is the guard was a greater idiot than the whack-o counted on him to be.

[SoapBox]

2. Good grief...

[MrModerate]

3. Precursor statement to a common Darwinian event:

"I thought it was empty."

[NBachers]

4. "I'll just pull the trigger to make sure the chamber is clear."

[JohnnyRingo]

5. Yeah, I'm not comfortable with this.

The right is known for hair-brained conspiracy theories like FEMA camps and chem-trails, but such an obvious display as heavily armed boobs menacingly patrolling military recruitment centers blows right past them.

Freedom!

[phantom power]

6. I think this photo says everything about how badly this might go: