Accidental discharge at recruiting station, was this bound to happen? Price of protection at recruiting stations?

This is the same thing that I fear will happen when arming recruiters. Military service does not equal weapons proficiency and I heard about enough NDs in Afghanistan to know better. On one of my pre-deployment rotations through CRC at Fort Benning, we had an active duty LTC who could not qualify with the M9 pistol. I think recruiting stations will continue to be soft targets because it will be very difficult to have armed recruiters do their jobs at high schools and other events and even with trained civilians, that is not a long term sustainable force protection measure.

Two things here. The weapon should have had the safety on. Second keep your darn finger off the trigger unless you mean to discharge the weapon... Common sense people. Sadly this is what happens when unqualified people, whatever their intention, handle firearms

I said this before in another topic, but the law of averages says there will be a ND. It will likely be one reason the military disallows volunteer guards.