With 7 million new gun owners just this year, and with lots of pre-exisitng owners already that may have a careless or ignorant attitude about firearms safety, or who learned everything they know about firearms from the movies or TV, it is sadly not unexpected that stupid events like this happen:
The Detroit News: Oakland County man accidentally fatally shoots himself
A 50-year-old man died when he accidentally shot himself in his head after a witness asked him to to "stop playing" with a gun last weekend in Pontiac, the Oakland County Sheriff's Office said.
Guns are not toys and you do not "play around" with them.
Since the Four Rules of firearms safety seem to be too much work for some people to learn, let's begin with two really basic and what should be obvious ones if you lack the time and attention span to learn 4:
First, Do not point a firearm at your head (or other part of your body) - Ever.
Regardless of whether you think it may be loaded or not, Do Not Point A Gun At Your Head (or other part of your body) - Ever.
Second, Do not pull the trigger of a firearm pointed at your body - Ever.
Regardless of whether you think it may be loaded or not, Do Not Pull The Trigger Of A Gun Pointed At Your Body - Ever.
These rules also apply to all other persons and objects who you do not intend to shoot or do not want to get shot as well.
Now that you've got that down, go forth and learn the 4 Firearms Safety Rules, please. They're really not hard to learn and follow and you can avoid these tragic accidents by learning and following them.
In short, this is a completely avoidable and incredibly stupid fatal accident.
Alternatively, this may very well have been a suicide given what we know about people's mental health in this age of Covid isolation.
Explaining the event as the person dying by "accident" especially when an inanimate object can potentially share the blame, is often much more bearable for the survivors to take and comprehend rather than knowing the person deliberately took their own life.
Either way, it's still an absolute waste.
6 comments:
Darwin will not be denied, only delayed.
Given your suicide scenario, would this then be classified as a covid death?
There are 4 rules. Learn them.
Please don't think me cruel but I'm OK with 50 yr idiots removing themselves from the gene pool.
markshere2: That is definitely true.
Scott: Only if he gets tested and they find some during the autopsy, then yes, I believe it does so get counted, at least we've seen such before.
doubletrouble: Yep, sadly some people don't seem to have the attention span these days to learn 4. I figure they can learn the two above =whiuch can stop them shooting themselves and others negligently, and then they can ease into the difficulty of learning four rules.
Stuart: Understandable you fele that way, but it's still a stupid waste.
To quote the immortal Lazarus Long: "Stupidity is the only universal capital crime."
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