Iowa cop accidentally shoots himself and fellow officer. So which one's that "bad guy with the gun?"

Courtesy of WQAD:  

While a police officer was cleaning a gun, it reportedly discharged causing the officer to accidentally shoot himself and another officer. 

The Iowa City police officers had been doing a routine cleaning of their service weapons at the Iowa City Police Department Monday, November 10, 2014, according to a release from the City of Iowa City. The city’s Daily Activity log indicated that at 8:37 two ambulances were sent to their department on Highway 6 East when an officer accidentally fired his weapon., shooting himself and another nearby officer. 

Both sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The officers were taken to nearby hospitals, were treated and released.

The NRA is constantly telling us that the American people have nothing to fear from firearms in the hands of good people with the appropriate training. 

However how much better trained can you be than an officer of the law?

The facts are that the more guns there are out there the more accidental shootings there will be.

That is not to say that Americans should not own firearms, if they are reasonable people who simply want them for protection, then of course they should have them.

But guns are dangerous and need to be respected as such. They are not accoutrements to somebody's macho lifestyle nor a means of gaining power in order to feel like a bad ass, they are instruments created to take a life.

And as the story above indicates, there is no amount of training, or experience with guns, that makes them completely safe. And anyone who tries to convince you that they are no more dangerous than any other tool you might have laying around your house, does not respect our intelligence, nor the weapons themselves.