Well, I'm certainly above pointing any gun, even if I think it's unloaded, up to my head and pulling the trigger. You call it an accident. I call it stupid.
Yeah but we're not talking about his abilities with flintlocks, we're talking about his objection to the Civil War, aren't we?
If you want to talk stupidity, talk about Lincoln totally haveing zero concept of the risk involved. Stonewall Jackson would've had him under guard had Jefferson Davis not refused his request for 10,000 more troops (quote: "Give me ten-thousand men and I will take Washington tomorrow!") after they completely routed the Union force at the Battle of First Manassas.
Yeah, that's the kind of dipsh1T Commander-in-Chief I want running the show.