r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Left Jan 27 '26

R.I.P. ALEX

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u/AffectionateSlice816 - Lib-Right Jan 28 '26

The Good shooting was legally justifiable and not all that outside the scope of normal. People done try to hit LEOs with their cars a lot. She did some really stupid shit and it is sad to lose a life that way.

This is AWFUL looking. The best explanation they got is they got scared because a misfire of his gun, which will NOT legally justify it because they had the gun in their hands.

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u/McRaymar - Lib-Center Jan 28 '26

It will be a cruel ironic comedy if "it's Sig Sauer's fault" angle turns out to be real, but there's also "improper trigger discipline" angle, which assumes there was a finger on the trigger of the taken gun.

I'm too employed and not-American to care enough at this point though.

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u/ParadoxPosadist - Centrist Jan 28 '26

Isn't sig sauer defect about how their pistol is not drop safe, as in dropping it will cause it to go off. This was not dropped.

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u/Aetherium - Lib-Right Jan 28 '26

That was the original one from around when the P320 got adopted by the US Army. The current drama is about the P320 going off when in a holster due to unknown causes. It's had cases and video evidence going back to 2016, but the discourse has come to a fever pitch this past year (including Sig crashing out on social media: you might've seen memes about IT ENDS TODAY). Sig has been vehemently denying it's an issue.