I predicted this months ago

In July, I blogged about a letter to Dear Abby that had appeared in the Star-Tribune. A woman had written in to complain that her police officer husband continually left his loaded, holstered service handgun laying around the house, accessible to little children. He had tried to defend this idiotic behavior by saying that the weapon was too hard to draw from the holster, and that:

"He insists, "It can't be fired while it's in the holster." "

I commented:

"Wanna bet? Ever seen the places small children can get their equally small fingers into? And why would you ever want to even take that chance?"

Well, a South Carolina sheriff's deputy found out the hard way that little kids' fingers are indeed small enough to fit inside a holster and reach the trigger of a pistol. The deputy was giving a "gun safety" class at a middle school when he invited a student to try to remove a loaded handgun from his duty holster, maintaining that it would be impossible to do so.

Boom.

Fortunately, no one was injured. The deputy is on administrative leave while the department investigates.

From the article:

""The officer there today had a major lapse in judgment," Crenshaw said."

That's the understatement of the week.

As always, most of the liberal elected leaders in this country maintain that only highly trained law-enforcement professionals are competent to carry handguns. The peasants would only do something stupid, like invite a child to snatch a loaded handgun from their holster.