Man Kills Himself While Demonstrating Firearm Safety

[silverscreenselect]

A Detroit area man shot and killed himself while demonstrating firearm safety to his girlfriend. The man owned three guns and tried to explain to his girlfriend that they were safe when not loaded. He pointed the first two at his head, pulled the trigger, and nothing happened. He did the same thing with the third gun... OOPS. The man had apparently been drinking. Three children were in the house when the shooting occurred.

There was an earlier incident in Detroit just before New Year's when a vice president of the UAW accidentally shot his wife while cleaning his gun. He was charged with reckless use of a firearm.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140224/N ... lf-in-head

[Bob Juch]

A Detroit area man shot and killed himself while demonstrating firearm safety to his girlfriend. The man owned three guns and tried to explain to his girlfriend that they were safe when not loaded. He pointed the first two at his head, pulled the trigger, and nothing happened. He did the same thing with the third gun... OOPS. The man had apparently been drinking. Three children were in the house when the shooting occurred.

There was an earlier incident in Detroit just before New Year's when a vice president of the UAW accidentally shot his wife while cleaning his gun. He was charged with reckless use of a firearm.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140224/N ... lf-in-head

Pointing a gun at your head and pulling the trigger is not demonstrating firearm safety.

A few months ago someone teaching a firearm safety class managed to shoot himself in the leg.

There are plenty of Darwin Award candidates out there.

[a1mamacat]

A Detroit area man shot and killed himself while demonstrating firearm safety to his girlfriend. The man owned three guns and tried to explain to his girlfriend that they were safe when not loaded. He pointed the first two at his head, pulled the trigger, and nothing happened. He did the same thing with the third gun... OOPS. The man had apparently been drinking. Three children were in the house when the shooting occurred.

There was an earlier incident in Detroit just before New Year's when a vice president of the UAW accidentally shot his wife while cleaning his gun. He was charged with reckless use of a firearm.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140224/N ... lf-in-head

I guess he won't qualify for the Darwins, as he had already passed on his stupid genes

[Bob Juch]

A Detroit area man shot and killed himself while demonstrating firearm safety to his girlfriend. The man owned three guns and tried to explain to his girlfriend that they were safe when not loaded. He pointed the first two at his head, pulled the trigger, and nothing happened. He did the same thing with the third gun... OOPS. The man had apparently been drinking. Three children were in the house when the shooting occurred.

There was an earlier incident in Detroit just before New Year's when a vice president of the UAW accidentally shot his wife while cleaning his gun. He was charged with reckless use of a firearm.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140224/N ... lf-in-head

I guess he won't qualify for the Darwins, as he had already passed on his stupid genes

It didn't say they were his kids.

[BackInTex]

Pointing a gun at your head and pulling the trigger is not demonstrating firearm safety.

You can chisel this one in stone. I agree, too.

Loaded, unloaded, real or not.

A moron with an "unloaded" gun is most dangerous.

[silverscreenselect]

This guy wasn't the first to make that same mistake:

Friday October 12th, 1984
Jon-Erik Hexum died on the set of the CBS television series "COVER UP".

The show was being filmed at the Twentieth Century Fox studios lot in Century City, when he 'accidentally' shot himself. The character he was playing was a weapons expert whose cover was that of a fashion show photographer. During a scene where he is lying in bed, in between takes, he was playing around with a .44 Magnum revolver that was on-set for use as a blank-firing weapon. Shortly after 5:15 p.m. he put the pistol (according to witnesses, it was loaded with three empty cartridges and two blanks) up to his right temple. As he pulled the trigger he smiled, and supposedly said, "Let's see if I got myself with this one." He was apparently unaware that at close range, a blank can cause great damage. The explosion drove a quarter-sized piece of his skull far into his brain. The paper wadding of the straight-walled blank cartridge went straight into his temple and forced a bone chip to lodge in his brain.

A witness' account stated: "John smiled and pulled the trigger. There was a loud bang and a bright flash, then black smoke. Jon screamed in agony, and then looked kind of amazed as he slumped back onto the bed with blood streaming from a severe head wound. It was horrible." Another witness said, "One of the assistants rushed over to Jon with a towel and wrapped it around his head, trying to stop the blood."

[earendel]

Even suicide bombers make mistakes.

http://www.euronews.com/2014/02/11/iraq ... amp-gaffe/

[a1mamacat]

Even suicide bombers make mistakes.

http://www.euronews.com/2014/02/11/iraq ... amp-gaffe/

and now he works for Jeff Dunham.....

[Bob78164]

Even suicide bombers make mistakes.

http://www.euronews.com/2014/02/11/iraq ... amp-gaffe/

I guess suicide bombing isn't a real good example of the "practice makes perfect" meme. --Bob