A 36-year-old Independence Township man is dead after he shot himself in the head while demonstrating the gun, deputies reported.
The Oakland County Medical Examiner has ruled his death a suicide.
The man’s girlfriend was performing CPR on the victim when deputies from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the residence on Pinedale — off of Sashabaw Road south of Maybee Road - at 9 p.m. on Sunday.
The girlfriend, who also lived at the Independence Township residence, told deputies the victim had been drinking most of the day. She told authorities that he had begun showing her how to use his three handguns and demonstrating how safe they were when they were empty, which he did by placing the gun to his head and pulling the trigger, officials said.
After doing this twice, he demonstrated the third handgun and the gun fired, striking him in the head.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
You know I would like to applaud this gun owner. At least he only killed himself.
By the way I don't want to judge his girlfriend too harshly, after all she just lost a loved one, but you would think she might have said something the first time he put a gun to his head, or at the very least the second time, and not just sat there and let him blow his stupid brains all over the walls.
Well at least this guy demonstrated how safe guns are to his girlfriend.
They're not. Especially when pressed against your skull.
Not to be too callous, but this is one less gun nut we have to deal with and maybe his girlfriend will refrain from having or using guns in future. I am sorry for her loss.
ReplyDeleteJust cleaning up the gene pool.
DeletePerhaps his purpose in life was to be a warning to others.
ReplyDeleteThe Darwin award field of contestants is very crowded these days. The NRA must be so proud.
Sadly, the Darwin award seems to need a bit more creativity. This level of average stupidity just doesn't cut it. At best, the guy will live on as a statistic for a few years.
DeleteI knew it would be in Florida.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that he was just standing his ground? Maybe the girl friend threatened him.
DeleteIndependence Township is in Oakland County, Michigan. We used to live not far from there.
DeleteBeaglemom
This is Michigan. Clarkston. Just north of Detroit. L Brooks Patterson. A very wealthy GOP envlave. We lived there three years, and I wad thrilled to move back north.
DeleteGlad to see this moron will no longer be near my grandchildren.......can I hear an amen!
Delete"Drinking most of the day," probably means the girlfriend has some experience already in what's it like to try and talk the guy out of what he wants to do when he's tanked. Again, I think this might point up the difference between alcohol and marijuana. Had he been stoned, this might have happened anyway, or he might just have stared at his guns, zoned. But you can count much more on booze to summon the sense of invincibility, combined with stupidity, that fosters such tragedies.
ReplyDeleteHope girlfriend did not have any children with this low IQ moran.
ReplyDeleteI just love happy endings. DZ
ReplyDeleteThis is a very good way for the gun nuts to eliminate themselves from the population. But, one at a time-- this is going to take a while.
ReplyDeleteAt least he didn't demonstrate by aiming the gun at his girlfriend and pulling the trigger - a loss of any life is sad, but I can't help feeling if you are that stupid ....well so be it and good riddance to a gun nut
ReplyDeleteSounds like she was against the guns themselves, and he was going "Hey, babe, see? Not so bad."
ReplyDeleteWhat do they say- woman's always right?
I have no words on this Florida SYG case.
ReplyDeletehttp://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/02/24/3322051/florida-man-granted-stand-ground-immunity-house-guest-killing-guns/
"I have no words..."
DeleteHow about 'madness'?
Nice try, Gryphen, but nobody can know when Jeebus is going to call them home.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you're just jealous that Jeebus had a special plan for this arguably somewhat clumsy gun enthusiastic and He has NO plans for you!
Face it, It was just this guy's time to go spend eternity sitting next to The Big Guy, maybe helping out with paperwork, running errands, sweeping up, solving Sudoku puzzles or whatever people do to pass the endless time in Heaven.
Remember, also, too, that Amercia is just starting the Golden Age of Unlimited Access to Guns and there's going to be a period of adjustment as real common sense conservative Americans plus some meth addicts, alcoholics, lunatics, imbeciles, morans, dementia patients, anabolic steroid abusers and other assorted mental defectives figure out that guns are... um... dangerous.
Come back in fifty years and I promise you, things will be a LOT better.
Or, possibly, a lot worse.
You think this guy would be capable of solving a Sudoku puzzle?
DeletePerhaps that should be a requirement before qualifying for a gun purchase. No Sudoku, no gun. Might solve a lot of our problems.
Dead men play no sodoku.
DeleteGuns + Booze + stupidity = teabagger
ReplyDeleteLet's hope he didn't have a chance to breed yet.
Her three children were in the apartment. She exposed her family to a guy who drinks all day and had three guns. And look, what he demonstrated most is that he needed only one. She's lucky it was HIS brains on the wall, and that she and her children were traumatized by having to perform lifesaving measures on him and call First Responders.
ReplyDeleteLove it...One more Gun Fanatic down
ReplyDeleteFixing out of control gun ownership one fool at a time.
ReplyDeleteGive this guy a Darwin Award!
So three children likely witnessed a man's brain matter splattered about the wall and curtain valances.
ReplyDeleteIf he was the type to "drink most of the day" regularly, those children may just have been rescued from their worst nightmare...BY their worst nightmare.
I feel badly for the kids and the girlfriend, I hope they get counselling to help them deal with what this idiot put them through.
ReplyDeleteIn a way, he DID make a point. From now on the crime of Murder/Suicide will be reversed in the books. Once people get used to it, they can just drop the "murder part".
Perfect crime. Shoot your boyfriend in the head and blame it on him. I say we check the insurance payout. ;)
ReplyDeleteI thinks he takes the guns lightly. Guns are not a toys to play and should not in the hands of drunker s. Guns should be sold to person having mentally fit and don't have any addiction.
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