ALBANY, Ga. - "A police officer was shot in the wrist when the service weapon that she kept under her pillow went off. Albany police Sgt. Kinshishi Adams, 34, was lying in bed Sunday when a .40 caliber pistol she kept under her pillow discharged and struck her in her left wrist, Dougherty County Police Chief Don Cheek said.
Adams was listed in good condition Tuesday at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, hospital spokeswoman Valerie Benton said.
"She sustained an extremely serious wound to the left wrist and underwent surgery (Sunday) night," Cheek said. "Everything indicates it was just a freak accident. She apparently sleeps with a weapon under her pillow, and somehow it discharged.
Both Cheek and Albany police stressed the importance of gun safety in the wake of the accident.
"We train on gun safety and we stress gun safety, but even the people who handle guns for a living, accidents happen," Cheek said. "We just stress that firearms are not toys, and even people experienced with firearms occasionally have accidents."
No they DO NOT. NO, I repeat, they do not. I can't tell what's worse; this soft-sappy "occasionally", or "accidents", or even the world-renowned, "somehow it discharged." The vast, vast majority of firearms owners...police aside...do not occasionally shoot themselves, nor is shooting oneself anything remotely connected to an ACCIDENT. And guess what, Einstein? We KNOW how it discharged. It didn't fire "somehow", it fired because the TRIGGER WAS FRICKIN PULLED.
This is proof positive that they'll never get it. Everything is a mystery, an accident, and they actually consider themselves to be experienced with firearms. And by the by, Albany Georgia is infamous for its Fifes. Spent quite a while there training reservists among other things and the absolute, positive, without a shadow of a doubt FIRST thing I'd tell a weekend warrior whose real job was law enforcement was to never, ever, touch a firearm without myself or another senior NCO present. Don't clean it don't lube it don't even think of practicing with it all by your lonesome. The VAST majority of them simply never learned the proper manner in which to operate a deadly weapon, and no one has a negligent discharge on my watch, I don't give a rats pitute if your name is Eliot Frickin Ness. We didn't play make-believe then, and I'm not learning how to NOW. Bearing arms is a serious responsibility that takes serious men to do so well. You made a mistake? Own up to it, learn from it, then move on. Passing one or another negligent discharge off as an accident speaks volumes about the "It's Nobody's Fault" mentality ever so prevalent among todays boys masquerading as men.
And if that isn't bad enough what in all hells kind of name is Kinshishi?
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