It might be that they just stand by and watch you burn to death.

It might be that they arrest you for trying to recover your home from a squatter and tell you to “try to see things from his perspective.”

It might be shooting 84 rounds at a perp, missing with 70 of them which hit various parts and pieces of the neighborhood businesses.

It might be that they beat you literally to death while laughing about it.

NEW: Body-cam footage released showing New York correctional officers smirking as they “fatally beat” a man in handcuffs.

Sickening.

43-year-old Robert Brooks passed away on Dec 10 at Wynn Hospital in Utica, NY.

The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations… pic.twitter.com/BwLPnOS9fH

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 27, 2024

But it also might be that some numbskull shoots you with your own gun.

Florida resident Jason Arrington was driving near the intersection of 27th Street and Main Street in Jacksonville’s Brentwood neighborhood on Dec. 13 when he did something we’ve all probably been guilty of at one time or another: he ran a red light. An officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) witnessed this action and pulled him over, but the traffic stop didn’t exactly go as planned.

Arrington, who thought he was doing everything correctly, informed the officer that he had a gun on his person — a gun that he owned legally — and  he was asked to step out of his vehicle and put his hands on his truck. Back-up arrived on the scene, and, according to Arrington, the back-up officer began to search him and attempted to remove the gun.

“She tugged on the gun the first time, then she tugged again,” Arrington said in a statement on Friday. “That’s when I told her, ‘Hey, let me unloosen my belt because it’s tight.’ I don’t know, she might have got nervous or whatever and she pulled harder two more times and that’s when it discharged and it shot me in my upper thigh, hip and came out on my right side.”

Arrington also said that didn’t even understand why the officers wanted to remove the gun anyway. He said he posed no threat, and did everything they asked him to do, even keeping his hands on his vehicle after getting shot. While a request has been made to release the bodycam footage, the JSO said it could take six to eight months.

On Friday, the organization announced on X that it is conducting an “active internal affairs investigation.” Typically, when an officer is involved in a shooting, it would conduct what it calls an “administrative review of a critical incident.” The sheriff’s office added, “As is customary in these types of investigations, the officer under investigation may have his or her law enforcement authority rescinded. That authority has been rescinded for this officer and the officer was reassigned to an administrative position until the active internal affairs investigation is complete.”

She should be charged with assault with a deadly weapon, with additional charges or being a stupid ditz and too dumb to hold any sort of job at all.

I’ve said before that anyone – whether gun owner or cop – who touches a gun during an encounter with the police is an idiot. That goes equally and even more so for cops. Besides, a police officer job is inherently safe anyway compared to other occupations.

A man might have modified his weapon. A man might have installed a light trigger. The holster might be a retaining holster. It might be out of the holster. It might be a single-action only gun. It might be a SA/DA gun. It might have a safety. That safety might be engaged, or it might not be.  It might not have a safety.

It might be a 1911 with series 70 design, so not drop safe. It might be a 1911 with series 80 design. A gun might have one in the chamber, or it might not. It might be in a holster that fools the cop into thinking that she doesn’t have her finger on the trigger. I could go on, but you get the point.

Any cop who touches another man’s weapon without there being a clear danger (e.g., a gun fight) is an idiot. She isn’t making things safer. She is making things less safe. Any police department that has as its policy to touch another man’s weapon in routine stops is full of imbeciles. The absolute safest place for a weapon to be is on the person or unmolested. Untouched!

Do … not … touch … the … weapon!

As I’ve said many times before, you’re never in more danger than when the police are around. No situation is so bad that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.