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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (426)	3/30/2012 8:13:31 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) of 515

NEWS STORY A stray bullet shot into a home last night after a Calgary police officer’s gun accidentally went off last night. Police were executing a search warrant at 9:20 p.m. MT Thursday, when they were confronted by a woman wielding a knife. During the arrest a weapon was fired and a round entered a neighbouring unit in the housing complex at 100 block of Discovery Ridge Hill S.W. The woman was subdued with a conducted energy weapon and charges are pending. No one was injured. The Calgary Police Service Professional Standards Section is investigating the firearm discharge. NEWS STORY COMMENT CBC please change this sentence! "A stray bullet shot into a home last night after a Calgary police officer's gun accidentally went off last night." Guns don't accidentally go off. The trigger must be pulled in order for a gun to discharge. The gun doesn't accidentally do anything, other than what the operator does to pull the trigger and engage the hammer. Please rephrase this to, "an officer accidentally discharged his firearm." Taking the onus out of the officer in the first sentence of the article is awful reporting. It is the officers fault, not the firearm. cbc.ca

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