{"id":186489,"date":"2014-01-08T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/08\/winner-of-this-weeks-award-for-stupid-motherfer-with-a-gun-is\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T02:51:00","slug":"winner-of-this-weeks-award-for-stupid-motherfer-with-a-gun-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/08\/winner-of-this-weeks-award-for-stupid-motherfer-with-a-gun-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of This Week&#8217;s Award for Stupid Motherf%$#er With a Gun Is\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Jerome M. Hauer, commissioner of the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services,&nbsp; who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/default\/article\/Ready-aim-point-talk-5116592.php\">pulled his loaded Glock in a state office building and used the laser sight to point at locations on a map<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Jerome M. Hauer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s director of homeland security, took out his handgun and used the laser sighting device attached to the barrel as a pointer in a presentation to a foreign delegation, according to public officials. It happened Oct. 24 in Albany at the highly secure state emergency operations center below State Police headquarters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">These officials, one of whom claimed to be an eyewitness, said that three Swedish emergency managers in the delegation were rattled when the gun&#8217;s laser tracked across one of their heads before Hauer found the map of New York, at which he wanted to point.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hauer, commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, was disabled by a stroke a few years ago and can be unsteady. He isn&#8217;t a law enforcement official. He carries the loaded 9-millimeter Glock in a holster into state buildings, an apparent violation of state law barring state employees from bringing weapons to the workplace, several witnesses say.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you have a guy who, &#8220;can be unsteady&#8221; from a stroke waving a gun around in a meeting in order to use it as a laser pointer.<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only one to think that maybe this guy not only should not have a gun permit, but that he should not cut his own steak, because he is too out of it to use a sharp knife?<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/new-york-jerome-hauer-handgun-laser-pointer\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Jerome M. Hauer, commissioner of the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services,&nbsp; who pulled his loaded Glock in a state office building and used the laser sight to point at locations on a map: Jerome M. Hauer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s director of homeland security, took out his handgun and used the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055,1041,982,1126,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-laws","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-stupid","category-weapons","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}