Man Kills Self While Taking a Selfie With a Gun

[Cruickshank]

First rule of gun safety: Do not point the weapon at anything that you do not wish to put a hole in.

Second rule of gun safety: Be aware of the weapon's state of readiness at all times. (i.e. Loaded/unloaded, cocked/uncocked, safety on/off.)

Do they not teach people this shit anymore? Or are some people just too dumb to listen to what is essentially just common sense?

sorry but im going to have to amend that to:

1st rule of gun safety: do not EVER put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to fire

2nd rule of gun safety: Do not point the weapon at anything that you do not wish to put a hole in

3rd rule of gun safety: Be aware of the weapon's state of readiness at all times.

4th rule of gun safety: store the damn weapon responsibly, locked away from anyone but whoever is on the gun license (if its not your name on the license, you shouldnt really be anywhere near the weapon)

not that you were wrong or anything, you just missed a couple of essential gun rules, that first one of my list being the one drummed into my head way back when i was first even allowed on a gun range, well before i was allowed to fire an actual round (that was around age 8, under heavy supervision, my father used to be cool)

 

[FireAza]

Further evidence that the people who take selfies have the level of intelligence that makes them think pointing a cocked and loaded firearm at their head is a good idea.

 

[scorptatious]

I'd make a Persona joke, but that would be in bad taste.

I probably shouldn't typed that.

Or that.

Or that.

Or that...

FUCK!

 

[Killclaw Kilrathi]

Sad part is the real idiot is still alive. It is said, in the article, that the gun was loaned to him. Who in the right mind loans a loaded/primed gun to somebody else who probably has never touched a gun before? The guy who owns the gun should be better informed about it's operation and still decides to do the dumb thing.

Very good point. The article seems to imply that the guy taking the selfie was just doing this as a one-off, none of the other photos mentioned seem to have anything to do with guns. He may not have had any sort of firearms training at all and just assumed that he was handed an unloaded one.