Shooting himself in the foot - he missed

The DRC Net newsletter is the first to arrive this week and as always is worth reading in its entirety. They have a great roundup of Million Marijuana March reports but my favorite item is this story on the DEA agent who managed to shoot himself while he was demonstrating gun safety to a group of teenagers from the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association.

According to police reports, the agent drew his .40-caliber pistol and removed the magazine, then pulled back the slide and asked someone from the audience to look inside the gun and confirm it wasn't loaded. The pistol was pointed at the floor, and when he released the slide, one bullet fired into the top of his left thigh.

The nexus between golf and the drug war is not clear, one suspects that it has more to do with their ethnicity, however the lesson certainly made an impression.

The kids screamed and started to cry," said Vivian Farmer, who attended the presentation with her 13-year-old nephew. "Everyone was pretty shaken up," Farmer told WKMG. "But the point of gun safety hit home. Unfortunately, the agent had to get shot. But after seeing that, my nephew doesn't want to have anything to do with guns." .

The agent remains unidentified and is reportedly back on the job. One supposes the agency won't be sending him out to speak for a while.