Nineteen year old shoots himself dead while taking selfies with gun.

Courtesy of Click 2 Houston:

 A man posing with a gun and taking selfies was killed when the gun went off and struck him in southwest Houston, police said. 

Family members said the victim is 19-year-old Deleon Alonso Smith. 

Investigators said Smith was taking selfies with a gun at an apartment in the 9800 block of Forum Park Drive and Bissonnet around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday when the gun accidentally went off, shooting the 19-year-old in the throat and killing him.

I don't want to sound callous but when it comes to accidental shootings this is one of the better outcomes.

I mean no innocent people were shot, and this guy will no longer pose a danger to his community with his careless gun handling.

I'm just saying.

Florida man killed by girlfriend while teaching her to shoot rifle. So does this mean she passed?

Okay now run and let's see if I can hit a moving target.

Courtesy of TPM:  

Police in Florida say a woman fatally shot her boyfriend by accident while he was teaching her to use a rifle. 

The shooting happened early Thursday in their Daytona Beach Shores apartment. 

According to the Daytona Beach Shores Police Department, the woman called 911 around 12:30 a.m. and told the dispatcher she unintentionally shot her boyfriend in the leg. 

Police say the man was taken to Halifax Hospital in Port Orange where he was declared dead. They detained the woman for questioning but haven't said whether she'll face charges.

First off the answer my own question in the headline I'm going to say that if you shot somebody in the leg, and they died, then yes you passed the rifle shooting class.


I know that sounds a little harsh but honestly at this point, after covering so many of these so-called "accidental shootings," I am almost of the mind that if you get killed by your own gun, then you don't really deserve any sympathy.

Man fires at armadillo, armadillo returns fire, injures man. This must be Texas.

Courtesy of KTRE: 

Cass County Sheriff's officials are investigating an early morning shooting in the Marietta area. 

According to officials with the sheriff's department, they are investigating a possible accidental shooting that happened just before 3 a.m., Thursday in the 27,000 block of Highway 77. The man involved told deputies he was shooting at an armadillo and the bullet ricocheted and hit him in the head.

You know every once in a while you come across a story that you know could ONLY happen in Texas.

This is one of those stories.

I guess the only thing that can stop a bad man with a gun is armor formed by plates of dermal bone covered in relatively small, overlapping epidermal scales.

Take that NRA!

Man finds bullet proof vest, puts it on, and asks friend to shoot him. I bet you know what happens next.

Courtesy of WYFF:  

A 25-year-old man who put on a bullet proof vest and asked to be shot was killed Wednesday morning, according to the coroner, and an 18-year-old girl is charged in the death. 

The shooting was reported on Broadmouth Church Road at 2:40 a.m., according to Sheila Cole with the Anderson County Sheriff's Office. 

Anderson County Deputy Coroner Don McCown said Blake Randall Wardell was hanging around with some other people in a garage at that location when he put on a bullet proof vest they had found. 

Wardell asked his friend, Taylor Ann Kelly, of Anderson to shoot him. She fired, and the shot from the small caliber weapon went above the Kevlar of the vest and into Wardell’s heart, killing him, McCown said. 

The eighteen year old woman has been charged with manslaughter and could spend up to five years in prison. 

There was a scene in a movie called Kick-Ass where a young girl put on a bullet proof vest and her father shot her in order to demonstrate what it felt like before they went out together to fight crime.

I don't know if that movie influenced these two people or not, but it is very clear that they lacked the proper respect for what guns could do and saw them simply as toys.

THAT is one of the side effects from living in a society that panders to gun nuts and which seems to revere the right to own weapons over every other right that we have in this country.

I feel badly for the young woman, but clearly the man was really too stupid to live, and was essentially living on borrowed time.