Posted on 04/11/2017 10:45:36 AM PDT by PROCON
FORT WORTH--A male died Monday in south Fort Worth after reportedly shooting himself in the head while showing a friend how the safety on his gun worked.
Officers were dispatched about 5 p.m. to a home in the 4800 block of Madyson Ridge Drive, according to a police report.
A 911 caller at the home reported that his friend was holding the gun to his own head when he pulled the trigger and it discharged, said officer Jimmy Pollozani, police spokesman.
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A bullet is just like a social media post, once you mash the button, it ain’t never coming back.
Death by stupidity. The dead guy was showing how the safety wouldn’t allow the gun to go off by putting it to his head and pulling the trigger.
Brain Engaged...?
Not where I work.
That’s not the way to bring new people into the shooting community.
Tragic maybe, but not funny. As boneheaded of a move as that might have been, someone is dead. If he is survived by family members, they will be without the deceased forever.
What kind of "safety" had this fellow taught in the past?
He clearly did not know the FIRST THING about safety. There is only ONE reliable safety and he put a bullet through it.
Years ago a man in Toronto wanted to prove how safe the windows in an office building were.He ran down the hall at full speed, crashed through the floor to ceiling window, and plunged several stories to his death.
Song lyrics to “Famous Last Words” by 9353:
It’s ok
It’s not loaded
I’m a good driver
Don’t worry honey
Etc
Play stupid games.
Win stupid prizes.
Never Ever point the exit hole of a Bang Stick at you Brain Bucket.
Pretty sure that was the unsafety he’s was demonstrating.
Now that you put it that way, it is never appropriate to laugh at idiots removing themselves doing idiotic things.
“That’s not the way to bring new people into the shooting community.”
His head is all over the place.
And his friend is now jumping out of his skin at the sound of every door shutting or car backfiring.
In movies, this kind of stuff is funny, hilarious. I think it reflects very badly on our postmodern culture and institutions that we seem to have a seemingly endless supply of mental midgets handling loaded firearms.
Sometimes, however, it is appropriate to provide applause. . .
Unless it’s SGLI or VGLI.
Another Darwin Award recipient.
Agree, I am a RSO and firearms instructor for almost 30 years.
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