Fun With Guns: Curiosity Edition
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Look, I’m not saying that drugs were involved, but …
A Colorado Springs man who shot himself in the foot on Wednesday night did it because he “wanted to know what it felt like to be shot,” police say.
Hirtle told police he took off his boot, shot it, put it back on and then shot himself in the foot in his garage. He did not sustain life-threatening injury and no one else was injured during the incident.
I want to know what the boot did to justify shooting it twice.
Thanks to Larry for the heads up.
That sounds more like one of those “I meant to do that” excuses. However, I’d suggest insurance companies start excluding medical treatment for intentionally self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
1@RepubAnon +1
2But who held his beer? Or smoking material?
3Too bad he didn’t aim a little higher.
He couldn’t have been smoking weed, it never makes you do anything that stupid.
4Why just the foot?
5Shooting himself in the foot once and the boot twice gives him street cred if he wants to run for wingnut politics in Texas(boot/foot) or anywhere else(foot) with the boot as a nice accessory.
6The boot was shot twice because it kept interfering with his tongue.
7Just goes to show ya, there are idiots in Colorado, too!!
8Seems to me that the boot was just standin’ its ground.
9And anybody that stupid can just walk into a store and buy a gun…. I was going to add “or use the internet” but I doubt he’s got the smarts for that.
10Lorraine, or held up his pants.
11If you buy a gun you should have to buy insurance right then that covers the gun. So if it’s stolen, it’s covered. If it’s used in a crime, it’s covered.
12You would need to bring your voting record (if we did like Switzerland and fined people for not voting–keeping track of the fact of voting, not how you voted) if you are not voting–no gun. Simple things that would protect everyone from the gun. Since guns ARE what people use to kill. That added 10000+ dollars at purchase would eliminate casual buying. And since guns wound as terribly as cars do, insurance makes sense. Having true “citizens” own them might reduce the idiot factor…but that’s a faint hope. At least the extra $$ would give people a reason to keep track of where the damn things are to eliminate so many toddler shooting deaths.
I’m sick of the “Do you know who I am? ” stupidity that marks so much of the discourse of the gun/wing nuts. No one is special, everyone is to the people who love them–these wingy people suffer from love, but need to have the damage they inflict handled.
This may be the first time he’s literally shot himself in the foot, but — like most gun nuts — he’s probably figuratively shot himself in the foot many, many times. Think Ted Cruz and Rick Perry here.
13This fellow is either stupid as dirt or stupid drunk. He did it accidentally, being dirt stupid drunk, and doesn’t want people to know it. Problem is, nobody believes his ridiculous story and everybody knows what a dirt stupid drunk he is. Lock him up ’til he sobers up, or gets smarter.
14Meant lack of love…
15Drunks suffer from that too, just read an article about addiction steming from lack of connectedness…that’s a lack of love in other words.
Sigh.
Inadequate feeling people without intimate relationships in their lives…booze, drugs and guns. How exceptional we are!
I submit that if mr. Hirtle had shot himself in the head, it still wouldn’t have been a “life threatening injury”.
16Sooo…he shot himself in the boot and again in the foot. Must have felt he needed practice, but didn’t want to just shoot a hole in the ground, for fear of getting confused and shooting himself in the a** with the second shot.
Why did he call the police? I guess they didn’t have to worry about him running.
17Or maybe he just got F confused with B.
18Elise, great idea.
19And the guy is strange at least, if not nuts. Poor baby. Now that he knows what it feels like to get shot, what’s he going to do with that information?