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[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it's short for negligently discharged but it's kind of stupid to shorten that. I can't imagine what reason there is to not just write " negligently discharged".

Frankly I think calling it a "negligent discharge" is giving the officer too much credit. The gun shouldn't even have been unholstered. Guns are used to shoot not threaten. If he was pulling the gun out then he intended to fire it and if he pulled the gun out without intending to fire it then it wasn't a negligent discharge it was an incompetent booger hooking by a pants shitting coward.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago

Negligent discharge is the term you use whenever someone shoots their gun when they didn't intend to. It's just common lingo to shorten it to ND or ND'd. It's one of those terms that, at face value, doesn't convey the seriousness of what you just did, but people who use the term regularly know just how bad it is.