Indian Police Chief Dies in Bizarre Negligent Discharge

One thing that’s always a little awkward, at least for me, when carrying a firearm is using the bathroom. The gun weighs down my pants, and if I’m just taking a leak, I don’t want to completely drop trow. When I get home, before I start to change clothes, I’m eager to get the gun off first because of that weight and how it just makes changing clothes a bit more of a task.

Maybe that’s just me, though. I may have never wrapped my brain around the best practices to avoid all of that.

I bring it up, though, because my own experiences with carrying had me shaking my head when I found out about the unfortunate demise of a police chief in India.

A police chief in India died after his gun accidentally fired while he was getting dressed for work.

According to local media outlets, including Dainik Bhaskar, Rokpal Singh, 38, the police chief of the Bilwara Sadar area in Rajasthan, India, was changing into his uniform at home on the evening of the 5th local time when his handgun suddenly discharged.

At the time, Singh was scheduled to report to the police station for a night shift. Just before the accident, he reportedly called a subordinate officer and said, “Prepare the car. I will leave soon.”

A short time later, the gun went off, and the bullet pierced his head.

An investigation is underway to determine the details, but the preliminary finding suggests that the gun went off “accidentally” as he was getting dressed for work.

I’m baffled as to how that can happen, especially since he was shot in the head. 

The family responded to the incident as you’d expect, calling for first responders to take Singh to the hospital for treatment. He wasn’t killed instantly, after all, but he died a short time after arriving at the hospital.

I mean, this is weird.

Unfortunately, it’s yet another example of how people are people, regardless of their profession.

See, I highlight cases where police officers are engaged in negligent discharges, particularly when someone gets hurt, not because I’m bagging on the police. I respect them and know they have a tough job to do. It’s one that they don’t get paid enough for, particularly in this day and age.

My reason for doing this is because there are a lot of people in this country who think that the police are in a different class from the rest of us, that the rules you and I are forced to abide by shouldn’t apply to law enforcement. We can’t get national reciprocity, but LEOSA allows officers to carry in all 50 states. That’s just one example out of many.

But police officers are human, which means while many are the pinnacle of all you could hope for, many others are on the opposite end of the spectrum, with the majority falling somewhere in between.

They’re not a special class, and while I get some of the arguments as to why they need to carry their guns in a lot of places, it doesn’t change the fact that some of us have gotten a lot more death threats than they have.

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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