Well, Pat, unfortunatly it's not BS, as you so "eloquently" put it.
Negligent discharge, accidental discharge, inadvertent discharge.
Whatever you want to call it, it all means the same thing.
The gun was fired UNINTENTIONALLY, resulting in a grievious circumstance.
The rate at which police firearms were fired UNINTENTIONALLY in Washington, DC, rose dramatically, based on DC's OWN records.
Trying to play with the terminology doesn't make it "bs," as much as you would like it to be.
I'll agree that more unintentional discharges have been logged with revolvers, given that the revolver was the defacto police sidearm of choice in the United States for over 100 years.
That's not, however, the point.
Oh, I don't know, BobR, I sort of like the Patifications. I have fun disassembling them.