It definitely is sad and tragic and yeah, the anti-gun folk will point to it to make a point but they should not be allowed to taint all gun owners because of this.
Here's some recent law enforcement folk having problems too during their own training sessions with each other.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection firearms instructor conducting a course was accidentally shot and killed at a west Miami-Dade gun range October 19, 2022.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2022/ ... cials-say/Here's one from August, 2022 about an accident in Washington D.C. during a training session that was supposed to be about ASP batons. Still a lot of questions to be answered about this.
https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-ne ... s-justice/It's just way too easy for the anti-gun folk to point to an incident and say 'if there were no guns there would be no gun accidents' and this is unrealistic and ignores the real world we all live in.