Man Trying To Prove Gun Won't Fire Shoots Self In Head

[onehandle]

Source: AP

OVERGAARD, Ariz. (AP) -- A 23-year-old Phoenix man is in critical condition after shooting himself in the head while trying to show that a handgun could not be fired while he had the safety mechanism engaged.

The Navajo County Sheriff's Office said Christen Reece fired his handgun Wednesday while shooting with six other people outside Overgaard in eastern Arizona.

Friends took Reece to the local fire department, where he was treated before being airlifted to a Scottsdale hospital for surgery.

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[iandhr]

1. To quote Bugs Bunny

What a maroon.

[cadaverdog]

24. What an

Ultra maroon.

[TwilightGardener]

2. You have to admire that level of confidence in oneself.

[Hoyt]

3. A least he wasn't pointing it at some innocent person. Hope he survives and has to give up

his guns, then goes out to convince the gun yahoos they are wrong.

[Ken Burch]

7. The person he pointed it at was definitely NOT innocent.

Deluded, perhaps, but not innocent.

For his family's sake, I hope he pulls through.

[onethatcares]

15. when I read these things,

I wonder if the idiot has insurance under the ACA or is going to allow we citizens to pay for their stupidity.

Sometimes I just wonder.

[KG]

4. The daily 'responsible gun owner' feel-good story!

[Happyhippychick]

5. My six year old would say "he won the stupid contest"!

[3catwoman3]

6. Your 6 year old...

...would be right on the money.

[Happyhippychick]

28. :)

[tomm2thumbs]

17. your six year old is wise beyond their years

and then some

[Happyhippychick]

27. :)

[packman]

8. Famous last words (I hope not)

Safety's on - watch this - you can't fire it

Is this a case of he wouldn't have been shot if other's were armed. Oh - they were.

[Sancho]

9. Why didn't his armed friends shoot him to stop him before he shot himself?

[damnedifIknow]

10. Ernest this dang thing won't fire

Now Bobby Lee ya had better be careful pullin the trigger like that. Yeah Right Ernest I said the dang thing won't fire...Click...See....Click.....boom!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

11. Missed it by THAT much! (Darwin Award).

[Frank Cannon]

12. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that alcohol may have played a role.

Isn't there an old joke about a yokel's last words? "Watch this. Hold my beer."

[Fuddnik]

16. Or that guy in Louisiana a couple of weeks ago.

"Fuck them alligators"!!!!

Famous last words.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. I bet he was really stubborn about it too....

This opened his mind.

[flamin lib]

14. Safety?

Hell, gunz ain't safe!

[EEO]

18. Please tell me he hasn't reproduced.

[snort]

19. Only an idiot with a gun can stop an idiot with a gun.

[SmittynMo]

20. One man's opinion

[Codeine]

21. Play stupid games,

win stupid prizes.

[world wide wally]

22. Oooops

[bvar22]

23. The gene pool just got a little deeper.

Maybe we can turn this into a national contest for Gun Nuts, kinda like Beer Pong, but with loaded guns.


Billy Bob, you go first.
Don't forget the video so we can put you up on the YouTube.

[Kennah]

25. Doesn't matter if the safety rules are strongly word and forcefully delivered ...

... asshats are on sale, and probably at Wal-Mart.

Rule #1: All Guns Are Always Loaded

Generally, one can stop right there. I mean if one took it seriously one would not point a gun at one's own head unless one were suicidal--or, as I already alluded to, an asshat.

[PoliticAverse]

26. If you are depending on a safety mechanism you are being unsafe. n/t