Why aren't they calling it "negligent"?

[Perplexed]

LANCASTER, Ohio – Police say an instructor of a gun-safety class in central Ohio accidentally shot a student during the weekend.


The Columbus Dispatch reports 73-year-old Terry J. Dunlap Sr. was demonstrating a hand gun on Saturday at a training facility when he fired a bullet that bounced off a desk and into the right arm of Michael Piemonte.


The 26-year-old student says the .38-caliber bullet hit him between his elbow and armpit. He says many of the students in the class were nurses who helped stabilize him before he was transported to a Columbus hospital.


Piemonte tells the newspaper it appears that Dunlap did not know that the gun was loaded. Dunlap did not immediately respond to requests for comment.


A police report lists the incident as an accidental shooting.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/1...-student-in-gun-safety-class/?intcmp=obinsite

 

[Glocktogo]

Well there's a "firearms instructor" who should never be allowed to instruct again!

 

[dru]

because the news media is perpetually ignorant about firearms and can't differentiate between an AD & ND the same way they can't differentiate between magazines & clips

 

[Wheel Gun]

I think I'd ask for my money back.

 

[SoonerP226]

because the news media is perpetually ignorant about firearms and can't differentiate between an AD & ND the same way they can't differentiate between magazines & clips

The way I was taught, there are only negligent discharges--if something gets shot that you didn't want shot (or when you didn't want it shot), it's because you were negligent in following the three cardinal rules of shooting.

 

[Surveyor1653]

Nothing like taking the old insurance policy out for a spin.

 

[ripnbst]

Because the average reader doesn't differentiate between the two and it's the MSM.

Ever seen this?

 

[uncle money bags]

Since they are reporting that it is the police report says "accidental shooting" i have to think the term is being used for some legal reason.

 

[SoonerBorn]

I had an AD once. My daughter's almost two years old.

 

[tRidiot]

I had an AD once. My daughter's almost two years old.

That is most assuredly an ND!