One Idaho state representative is pretty sure he knows who was behind the violence in Charlottesville. Obama!

Courtesy of The Hill: 

An Idaho state lawmaker is facing backlash for sharing a conspiracy theory that former President Obama helped to orchestrate the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., as part of a plot to take down President Trump. 

Idaho Rep. Bryan Zollinger on Friday posted a story on Facebook that suggested Obama and other top Democrats like billionaire George Soros and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe were part of a conspiracy to set up the rally, the Post Register reported. 

“I’m not saying it is true, but I am suggesting that it is completely plausible,” Zollinger wrote on Facebook. The story claims that Obama has set up a “war room” to fight against the Trump administration — a claim that has largely been debunked — and that Charlottesville was a part of his plan. 

The lawmaker later told the Idaho Statesman that it was “maybe a mistake” to share the story but doubled down on his statement that the claims were “plausible.”

Plausible?

So it is plausible that a bunch of Nazis, KKK members, and White Supremacists gathered in Virginia to foment violence at the direction of the first black president in American history?

Sure, plausible, right.

But do you know what IS plausible?

That these racists assholes will continue to blame Barack Obama for every single thing that goes wrong in their lives for the next twenty years despite the fact that he is no longer in office, or wields any real power.

Because THAT is what racists do.

Do you want to see that blowhard Ted Cruz cut off in mid speech? You know you do.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz appeared to get cut off in the middle of his speech at a popular religious conservative convention in Washington, D.C. 

Cruz, one of the first speakers to kick off the Faith and Freedom Coalition's "Road to Majority" conference, spoke for just nine minutes before an abrupt ending. 

"What I want to say to the men and women here are two things: number one, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for your prayers, thank you for your passion, thank you for your time, thank you for your energy, thank you for speaking out and working to retake our nation," Cruz said.

You know I have had a lot of truly rewarding experiences in my life, but few were quite as satisfying as watching this arrogant asshole left stunned right in the middle of shoveling his bullshit into the audience.

I cannot imagine who actually goes to listen to this pompous idiot give a speech without having somebody holding  gun to their heads.

During the primaries I used to mute my TV whenever Cruz was giving a speech, or responding to questions, since just hearing his voice while looking at his smug face would make me want to do him serious bodily injury.

Everything about Cruz irritates me.

In fact this video may be the first one I have seen which I enjoyed even a little. And actually I enjoyed it quite a lot.

What was it that Al Franken said about Ted Cruz?

"I probably like Ted Cruz more than most of my colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz."

Oh yeah, I think that pretty much says it all.

That moment when the immigrant has to remind the POTUS to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem.

Melania appears to subtly nudge Trump during national anthem, reminding him to lift his hand https://t.co/NZoaj1H2zN https://t.co/BJN3bdGh1W

— CNN (@CNN) April 17, 2017

(Is that Sean Spicer up there with him?)

As you might imagine Twitter had a field day with this.

Why did Trump forget to put his hand over his heart when the National Anthem started and throw a hat into crowd he signed for a child.

— A Once Great Nation (@USARedOrchestra) April 17, 2017

Trump doesn't go to church, doesn't hand-over-heart during the national anthem & wastes taxpayer money every single weekend.

*GOP crickets*

— Jack Miller (@politicalmiller) April 17, 2017

If Obama had forgotten to put his hand on his heart for the National Anthem he'd have been slated by Fox for days.. #EasterEggRoll

— George Reeves (@GeorgeReeves94) April 17, 2017

Is anyone surprised?
Trump disappoints kids, screws up the national anthem at his first Easter egg roll https://t.co/VJaDz4aqW1

— The Blackest Heart (@TheReddestRose) April 17, 2017

MT @paul_lander Melania nudges Donald Trump to raise his hand for the National Anthem. In fairness, it wasn't the Russian National Anthem.

— RonSupportsYou (@RonSupportsYou) April 18, 2017

Every single day there are more and more reasons to feel shame for what is happening in our country right now.

Newly released Secret Service documents show that Trump's suggestion of a 2nd Amendment solution for Hillary Clinton resulted in numerous threats.

(Threat starts at the 40 second mark.)

Do you remember that from August of 2016?

Did you wonder if any of Trump's supporters actually got fired up enough to make actual threats against Hillary Clinton?

Well wonder no more.

These are today's tweets from journalist Michael Best who specializes in reporting on the intelligence community.

Just got docs from @SecretService on threats against Hillary Clinton, including Trump's comments.

— Michael Best (@NatSecGeek) April 6, 2017

.@SecretService pic.twitter.com/114ufXCAXq

— Michael Best (@NatSecGeek) April 6, 2017

Completely redacted pic.twitter.com/hatu6YSxJG

— Michael Best (@NatSecGeek) April 6, 2017

Secret Service docs indicate they did see threats against Hillary Clinton seemingly as a result of Trump's "2nd Amendment people" comment

— Michael Best (@NatSecGeek) April 6, 2017

DHS' reaction to Trump's "2nd Amendment people" comments: "YIKES!" pic.twitter.com/yEYu5MRGQg

— Michael Best (@NatSecGeek) April 6, 2017

Yikes! Indeed.

Could you even imagine how badly this might have gone?

After all Donald Trump's supporters are some of the angriest, mentally unbalanced crackpots that we have seen since the McCain Palin rallies of 2008.

These are the types of folks who see the solution to just about every problem as a bullet, and all it takes to set them off is a simple traffic incident, neighborhood confrontation, or careless presidential candidate and the next thing you know the air is filled with lead.

And there Donald Trump was, pouring gasoline ALL OVER those burning embers.

#Notmypresident.

(H/T to Politicususa.)

Donald Trump actually handed Chancellor Angela Merkel a 300 billion dollar bill that he claimed Germany owed NATO.

Courtesy of The Sunday Times:  

Donald Trump handed the German chancellor Angela Merkel a bill — thought to be for more than £300bn — for money her country “owed” Nato for defending it when they met last weekend, German government sources have revealed. 

The bill — handed over during private talks in Washington — was described as “outrageous” by one German minister. 

“The concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other side, but the chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such provocations,” the minister said.

So I guess Trump was full of shit yet again when he tweeted this:

Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, Germany owes.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2017

This guy is a national embarrassment now.

Good job Trump voters!

Donald Trump doubles down on his nuclear weapon tweet from yesterday, "Let it be an arms race, we will outmatch them at every pass, and outlast them all."

BREAKING: Trump to #morningjoe on the nukes tweet: 'Let it be an arms race' https://t.co/X9FMNtgKPK

— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) December 23, 2016

Well I said "holy shit" yesterday so I guess I should choose different wording today.

Holy fuck!

How can this idiot NOT know that nobody outlasts anybody in an arms race, they both just end up with a huge arsenal of incredibly dangerous weaponry that neither has any intention of ever using.

Donald Trump is literally like those ammosexuals who buy an arsenal of weaponry because it makes them feel like a tough guy, while in reality they are afraid to walk to the store at night for fear of being mugged.

It was one thing when this son-of-a-bitch was building towers with his name on them to compensate for his inadequacies, but now he is introducing the idea of sending the country hurtling toward a nuclear conflagration simply to impress the boys in the locker room.

Forget about rebuilding infrastructure or creating jobs America, Donald Trump has to prove to the world that his penis is not microscopic. 

Donald Trump claims that Putin will not go into the Ukraine when in fact he already has, then decides to go on Twitter and make it even worse.

This is what I know about international affairs. 

Courtesy of CNN:

Donald Trump said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin won't make a military move into Ukraine -- even though Putin already has done just that, seizing the country's Crimean Peninsula. 

"He's not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He's not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want," Trump said in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week." 

"Well, he's already there, isn't he?" Stephanopoulos responded, in a reference to Crimea, which Putin took from Ukraine in early 2014. 

Trump said: "OK -- well, he's there in a certain way. But I'm not there. You have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this. In the meantime, he's going away. He takes Crimea."

I have no idea what he was even trying to say there.

After several news outlets reported on his ignorance, and he was mocked mercilessly on the internet, Trump turned to Twitter.

When I said in an interview that Putin is "not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down," I am saying if I am President. Already in Crimea!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016

So with all of the Obama tough talk on Russia and the Ukraine, they have already taken Crimea and continue to push. That's what I said!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016

Actually no that is not even close to what he said.

What he said was "He's not going into the Ukraine, OK just so you understand. He's not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down."

ABC did not even have to "mark it down" because Stephanopoulis already knew just like every informed individual, that Russia has already invaded the Ukraine.

Trump is a laughingstock not, just in America, but all over the world.

Oregon man goes on shooting spree inside his own home because, well "he had all these guns."

Image courtesy of Raw Story

Courtesy of KITV: 

Oregon City Police Department arrested Steven Scholz, 66, after they say he intentionally "shot up" his home Saturday morning. Police say Scholz fired his gun multiple times and its bullets hit neighboring houses and a parked car. 

"I figured I'd just shoot at random because I had all these guns," Scholz said. 

During a jailhouse interview, Scholz said he wouldn't have fired his gun if he'd known his neighbors were home. 

"Hurting my neighbors is the last thing I want to do," Scholz adds. "I love them guys, I would lay down my life for them. They have families; I have nothing." 

Scholz's next door neighbor Deanna Segura said multiple bullets went through her home and one bullet missed her son by about a minute.

The NRA urges everybody to buy as many guns and as much ammunition as possible because President Obama is coming to take our guns, and of course terrorists are lurking behind every bush, and then nothing ever happens.

So there you are staring at your vast collection of guns and piles of ammo thinking, "Well I have to do SOMETHING with it."

Makes perfect sense.

More guns in the hands of Americans means more senseless shootings and more people put in jeopardy. I don't know why this is so hard for people to understand. 

Man shoots himself while taking selfie with gun.

Courtesy of TPM: 

A 43-year-old man has died after authorities say he accidentally shot himself in the face while taking selfies. 

The Skagit Valley Herald 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.

I don't know what is more pathetic, that this idiot died in this way, or that this is by no means the first time something like this has happened. 

Just another day in the NRA's America.

Ted Nugent knows exactly who is behind gun control in this country. It's the Jews.

Courtesy of TPM: 

Conservative rocker Ted Nugent believes that gun control is a Jewish-led conspiracy. 

A meme shared Sunday on Nugent's Facebook page alleges that Jewish leaders, including Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, are behind a concerted effort to confiscate Americans’ guns. The meme showed a small Israeli flag stamped on each individual’s face below the title: “So who is really behind gun control?” 

In his caption, Nugent refers to the Jewish politicians as "punks" who "hate freedom."

But hey, hey before you jump all over Ted "Poopy pants" Nugent for being anti-Semitic you should know that he returned to Facebook to clarify what he meant by that post:

Just when you hope that mankind couldnt possibly get any dumber or more dishonest, superFreaks rise to the occasion. What sort of racist prejudiced POS could possibly not know that Jews for guncontrol are nazis in disguise? 

Oh well in that ca.....wait what?

So perhaps Ted Nugent ISN'T anti-Semitic, perhaps he's just anti-making any damn sense.

Heckuva job. Jeb Bush praises Michigan governor Rick Snyder, for apparently poisoning children?

"I'd like to strangle me some terrorists. Yup, I sure would."

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Sunday applauded Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's response to the water contamination crisis in Flint -- even though the situation was caused by Snyder's own administration. 

 "I admire Rick Snyder for stepping up right now," Bush said on CNN's "State of the Union." "He's going to the challenge. He's fired people and accepted responsibility to fix this."

This comes amid calls for Snyder's resignation for hiring the city manger who created the water disaster in the first place, ignoring the initial reports that there was a problem, and responding only when the media attention left him no choice.

Here is what Jeb! finds so admirable:

"Instead of saying, 'The dog ate my homework, it's someone else's fault,' once it became clear, he's taking the lead now," Bush said. "That's exactly what I think leaders have to do."

Once again HE HAD NO CHOICE but to respond.

Just how many lead paint chips did the Bush boys eat while growing up?

Of course if this whole running for president thing doesn't work out Jeb! has a fall back career choice.

He'd like to strangle some terrorists on the Showtime series "Homeland."

Looks like I'm on @Showtime this week...unfortunately not @SHO_Homeland...was hoping to kill a terrorist: https://t.co/UWcL5UR96d

— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) January 22, 2016

Okay for one thing, there is no strangling in G rated films.

Secondly have you ever seen Jeb Bush's skinny ass arms?

I would be surprised if he could choke out a hamster much less strangle a full grown terrorist.

Bristol Palin is upset that people think she's an idiot. Is she just figuring this out now?

Courtesy of Bristol's Pikore account.

Courtesy of Brancy's blog: 

Yesterday was a normal day at work, overall I LOVE my job, I had just gotten back from a family vacation – I’m seven months pregnant – I cannot wait for my baby girl – Tripp has been such an angel lately and at such an enjoyable stage – my life is really falling into it’s own right now – and I really am happy – of course I had a smile on my face and an extra “pep to my step” .. I try to be as overly friendly as I can be at work, you never know what you’re going to run into during the day.. 

I took a patient back to an exam room, and set up for for a procedure the dr was about to do. (I promise I really do work a normal job, and have for a while.) I was making small talk with the patient while filing out notes… She asked how long I had been there. I told her around 6.5 years, but I had left for school, and done other short term “things” but always came back… She said she had never seen me there before. She goes on to say that she had heard “Bristol Palin had worked there,” and I just kind of laughed. I didn’t say a word. (I never do! DWTS/reality shows – that kind of stuff is so embarrassing for me!!!) Anyways, what was strange about this incident was that the patient continued. 

She then told me that, “it was a long time ago, when her mom was running. She didn’t work here long.” I still didn’t say a word. She then tells me, “but Bristol Palin is such an idiot!” 

I about died!!!!!!!!!!!! I should’ve asked why she said that. (Okay can French leave some exclamation points for the rest of us? I mean we have blogging to do as well.)

I’m sure she would’ve said something like, “well she’s such a whore” .. That’s all people can revert back to, you know? 

All I said back was, “Well actually, I am Bristol Palin and I have worked here, and I think that’s pretty rude you would say something like that.” 

 Her face went white!!! 

Like I’m sure the biggest foot you could’ve ever put in your mouth just happened!! (WTF?)

I told her the dr. would be right in and closed the door. 

The patient ended up apologizing – and even sent flowers that same day! I know she felt terrible, and I know she had no reason to call me an idiot. (Well.......)

 I couldn’t believe it after it had all happened.. But the last day I’ve been sitting back and thinking about how screwed up our world can be. 

We have so many opinions of people we don’t even know.. We have so much hate coming from what we’ve heard or seen online. It’s unbelievable.

Nancy French goes on to suggest that the only one who can judge us is God.

And then she kind of closes it out with this: 

So when moms are criticizing other moms about not being “organic enough” or not volunteering at the school enough.. Or girls criticizing other girls on how they dress, or how their eyebrows look, or guys criticizing guys about who knows -whatever guys criticize each other about .. It should all be like a foot in our mouth.

Life is too short to be so damn judgmental. 

 It’s not fun to hear about yourself, or feel like you have to superficially impress the people who are around you. 

I kid you not. This is word for word what was on Bristol Palin's ghostwritten blog.

You know, the blog that has judged and attacked Miley Cyrus, Hillary Clinton, President Obama, and Liberals, just to name a few, virtually every day of its existence.

Now first off I am not at all convinced that this exchange ever even happened, or if it did that it happened in this way. After all if she was aware that Bristol had worked there, and then saw a pregnant brunette, you would think she could put two and two together.

However giving Bristol/Nancy the benefit of the doubt the reason the woman called Bristol an idiot would not necessarily have been because she is a former abstinence spokesperson who is currently single and knocked up with another unnamed man's child.

Though that might be enough of course. 

It could also have been because of reports like this, or this, or this, where other news outlets report on the the stupid things written on Bristol's ghostwritten blog and attribute them to her.

Go figure. 

As I have said multiple times her mother is using SarahPAC funds to permanently damage her daughter's reputation, and this could very well be the result of that.

I hate to break it to Bristol, but this is now her life. If she wants to change it, then she needs to start working on that today.

However I would not be at all surprised that this is not the last time that she hears somebody refer to her as an idiot.

Especially if she comes here.

Newsflash: Ted Nugent is a "gay vegetarian pirate." Who knew?

obama is a Christian & Im a gay vegetarian pirate

— Ted Nugent (@TedNugent) September 19, 2015

I have to admit I'm kind of surprised because up until now I thought he was a gun toting, ammosexual, animal slaughtering, moron.

Just goes to show how you can misjudge a guy.

(H/T to Mediaite.)

One thing you have to say about Chris Christie, when he makes a gaffe, it is a humdinger.

I love how certain he is that he would never say what the young lady completely accurately quotes him as saying.

This is right up there with Rick Perry's "Oops" moment during the 2012 debate.

Louis Gohmert plans to challenge John Boehner for the job of Speaker of the House. And just when you thought the House Republicans could not get any crazier.

"I have no problem speaking in my house so what's the difference?"

Courtesy of Fox News:  

Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert said Sunday that he will challenge House Speaker John Boehner for his post when Congress returns this week to Washington. 

Gohmert, among the House Republican caucus’ most conservative members, made the announcement on “Fox and Friends,” saying he decided to run after Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., said Saturday that he would challenge Boehner for the chamber’s top post. 

“We have heard from a lot of Republicans that said, ‘I would vote for somebody besides speaker Boehner.’ But nobody will put their name out there,” Gohmert said. “That changed yesterday with Ted Yoho.”

“After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change,” Gohmert also said Sunday. “There have been numerous examples of problematic Republican leadership, but we were hopeful our leaders got the voters’ message. However, after our speaker forced through the CR omnibus by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership. There had been much discussion. But, until yesterday, no one had stepped up.”

Sure why not?

I mean it's not like anybody takes Congress seriously anymore anyway.

Just for take a moment, close your eyes, and imagine Louis Gohmert as Speaker of the House.

Which one are you doing, laughing or crying?

Ted Nugent seems to think the President actually gives a shit about him.

Courtesy of Blabbermouth:  

Fan-filmed video footage of Ted Nugent's anti-Obama "rant" from his July 26 concert at Leach Amphitheatre in Oshkosh, Wisconsin can be seen below. 

"You are standing in front of the No. 1 man that the President of the United States hates more than anybody," Nugent can be heard telling the audience in the clip. "Say, 'Thank you, Uncle Ted.' You know, I really didn't do anything. I just get up in the morning and try to be the best that I can be. I put my heart and soul into being the most productive American that I can be, and the President hates that! You know why he hates me? Because he hates you. He hates hunting, he hates guns, he hates freedom. He hates people with an attitude. So fuck him." 

Earlier this month, the Coeur d'Alene Casino in Idaho canceled its August Ted Nugent show because of "racist and hate-filled remarks" that were attributed to the rocker. 

Nugent defended his positions on Radio.com, saying that he has been the target of an "army assigned to destroy Ted Nugent." 

Yeah if there is an army out to destroy Ted Nugent, then the man leading that army is Ted Nugent, not he President of the United States.

Here is undoubtedly how the President would react if he heard that Nugent thinks that he hates him.

The fact is, much like Sarah Palin, Obama does not even spend a second of his precious time thinking about Nugent's ignorant inbred ass.

Palin and Nugent have this entire imaginary reality in which the President worries about what they might say about him, or spends hours a day thinking of ways to shut them up, when in fact he spends his time dealing with actual problems and people of real importance.

Oh Senator John McCain you gots some splaining to do!

...This 2013 photograph of John McCain is being circulated by members of ISIS as a photo of him with members of some of their members in Syria... The poster does not specify which of the men is actually from ISIS or “Al Qaeda In Iraq” as they were once called. (Source.)


So this was John McCain in 2013, and what is his response to his Iraq buddies now?

Courtesy of HuffPo:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ratcheted up the pressure on the Obama administration Thursday over the growing crisis in Iraq, calling for air strikes and special forces on the ground to arrest the advance of Sunni insurgents.

So rude to pose for a selfie and then try to launch an air attack against people don't you think? 

New Republican backed program of putting pregnancy tests in bar bathrooms to fight fetal alcohol syndrome demonstrates a lack of understanding concerning women, drinking, and FAS.

Courtesy of the New York Daily News:

A state-funded research project will offer free pregnancy tests at 20 bars in Alaska to stop expectant mothers from boozing. 

The University of Alaska has $400,000 to study if women are more likely to forego alcohol if a poster is pasted on a dispenser rather than a wall, reported the Anchorage Daily News. 

The project was proposed in March by Sen. Pete Kelly (R-Alaska) to flood bars and restaurants with tests to tackle birth defects and substance abuse problems in Alaska. 

Researchers claim Alaska has the highest rate of fetal alcohol syndrome because of frequent alcohol use among its female residents. 

The new study will target women with unexpected pregnancies with the help of a Minnesota nonprofit, Healthy Brains for Children, who installed the first pregnancy test dispenser in a bar in 2012 to curb fetal alcohol syndrome. 

Unlike the Minnesota dispensers, the tests in Alaska will be offered for free starting in December.

Okay while I appreciate that Pete Kelly wants to do SOMETHING about this terrible problem, it might help if he understood what the fuck he was trying to stop.

First off I think it is pretty clear that these machines will be treated as jokes by women in bars who will undoubtedly empty the machines every night just for shits and giggles, or to stock up for the future.

Second I work with the community most impacted by FAS, and the vast majority of the children are natives from rural communities, where there are few bars, and more drinking in the homes. Therefore even if this COULD have an impact, it won't impact the demographic that needs it the most.

Third there has already been a more thoughtful program launched in 2000, that actually DID have some favorable results:

The state has documented a 32 percent drop in the rate of Alaska children born with fetal alcohol syndrome. A state health official is attributing the decline largely to programs started under a multi-year, $29 million grant former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens obtained in a 2000 congressional earmark. 

The state used the money for both prevention and treatment of fetal alcohol syndrome, which occurs if a mother drinks during pregnancy. The state launched a multi-media campaign to educate people, and set up teams around the state to work with fetal alcohol kids. 

The findings of this program might well have helped this Pete Kelly guy if he had bothered to study what they discovered.  

The decline in the rate of fetal alcohol births was all due to a reduction in cases among Alaska Natives, Schoellhorn's report says. The rate of non-Native FAS births did not drop. 

It's not clear why that's the case, she said. 

Casto said she believes Alaska Native health organizations have strongly emphasized screening and intervention for pregnant women and women of child-bearing age. 

"They have recognized it as a huge problem. They are making an active and forceful effort to intervene." 

Yes well the number of cases in non-native births did not drop because they are already quite low already, and the number of native FAS births dropped because the program focused on education and prevention. Not simply installing dispensers in restaurant bathrooms and hoping for the best.

But hey, do you know what would have a HUGE effect on bringing down the number of FAS births?

Greater access to birth control, and sex education.

However Senator Kelly will have none of that.

I mean sure encouraging women to piss on a stick in a public restroom is reasonable, but offering them the opportunity to forgo unwanted pregnancies, take control of their lives, and plan when and with whom to start a family, well that's just social engineering. 

Man demonstrates gun safety to his girlfriend by putting gun to his head and shooting himself dead. Um, I don't think that's how you do it.

Courtesy of Oakland Press News:

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.

Man shoots himself minutes after leaving gun safety class. Did you guess this was in Florida? Good for you.

Courtesy of The Palm Beach Post:

Officers responded to the area of South Congress Avenue and Neptune Drive where a man said he had accidentally shot himself. He was found sitting in the bed of his pickup with a gunshot wound to his right leg. He told police he’d just left a firearms safety class and pulled over to inspect his new Glock 17 handgun. He said he removed the magazine and was manipulating the slide when the gun discharged. He was treated by fire-rescue at the scene, then taken to an area hospital.

Does this mean he earned and F?

I always thought that lesson one in any good firearms class was that you always handle every gun as if it was loaded.

Lesson two should be that you never play with your gun sitting next to a busy street.

This could have been much, much worse if that bullet had struck a passing car or hit a child playing on the street.

This leads me to believe that either the safety class this guy took was woefully inadequate, or he simply is not somebody intelligent enough to be trusted with a firearm.