Fun With Guns: Selfies Edition
Fun with Guns isn’t fun if somebody gets killed. Unless, of course, an idiot shoots himself.
A 43-year-old man has died after authorities say he accidentally shot himself in the face while taking selfies.
The Skagit Valley Herald [Washington State] reports the man and his girlfriend were photographing themselves with the weapon on Sunday at a residence when he shot himself.
Skagit County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Chief Chad Clark says the woman reported that she and the man had taken photos with the gun several times that day and that the man had loaded and unloaded bullets multiple times.
Clark says a bullet apparently remained in the gun the final time he fired.
Apparently? Did the report actually say “apparently”? No shoot, Sherlock.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Adding to my opinion that selfies are the stupidest thing since guns. The sheriff may want to check those photos in case the girlfriend got fed up with Bozo and took matters in hand herself.
1Cleaning out the gene pool one bullet at a time.
2Yeah, I think it was that putz Watson that got shot. Rhea, my husband thinks like you do!
3Sounds to me as though there was a round chambered BEFORE he fired… After he fired, the problem was that the bullet didn’t remain in the gun, but was impelled to seek freedom due to the consequences of carelessly pulling the trigger.
Guns don’t typically kill people – it’s usually those pesky bullets. 😉
4I hate to appear unsympathetic, but……
Darwin was right.
Survival of the fittest. The NRA is just helping to weed ’em out.
If only children were not getting hurt and killed.
5Apparently, to account for the possibility that the bullet didn’t come from that gun, but from another, somewhere, fired by someone or some thing. I’m not sure it’s been conclusively proven that the woman is telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Probably, but not conclusively proven.
6@Paul
7On a bumper sticker please! I’ll need 5.
Skagit County is a mostly rural (& mountainous) part of Western Washington. There are lots of hicks and backwoods folks there. It’s also breathtakingly beautiful.
8One less cementhead in Concrete WA
9Gives a whole new meaning to “photoshoot” don’t it?
10Sane people take pictures of their families, pets, homes, friends.
11How sad that these two needed that gun in theirs.
Does anyone know if this idiot has already reproduced?
12I did a one year internship in Concrete, Skagit County, Washington. As Dan said, it is beautiful there in the Cascade Mountains. The towns of Mt. Vernon, Burlington and Sedro-Wooley are downriver near Puget Sound and I think Mt. Vernon is the county seat.
For a beautiful vacation take I-5 north from Seattle to highway 20 and go east into the Cascades. Ahhhh.
13This story doesn’t make sense, were they talking selfies while playing russian roulette? Was he so drunk/high/stupid that he mistook his gun for the phone and instead of pressing the button, he pulled the trigger with the muzzle facing him?
14Shame he didn’t live long enough to post that selfie. It would have been a pretty vivid illustration of the hazards.
15Presumably the police have the firearm in question, and the brass, and the bullet from out his head (if they don’t, they shoujld) and can confirm whether the fatal shot came out of that firearm.
16Yes, eventually it will become clear where the bullet came from, and perhaps who fired it. It wasn’t yet clear to me, though, and probably not to the police at the time the story was filed. Thus they, or at least the media, were still using “apparently”. That may change, or may have already changed, but I don’t have enough incentive to go look it up.
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