A 49-year-old man is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the head, officials say.
Volusia County Sheriff's Office said that Charles Cooper, 49, and a female friend were on property that Cooper owns in Mims, with plans to fish and barbecue.
The couple had been drinking and sometime while they were outdoors Cooper retrieved a handgun, deputies said. A friend told Cooper that he had removed the magazine from the handgun but questioned aloud whether there was still a round in the chamber.
Deputies said Cooper raised the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, discharging a fatal round. He fell to the ground next to the bonfire.
Alcohol and firearms. Such a great combination.
On the plus side at least this idiot only took his own life. So I guess that's something.
I wonder how the NRA would spin this?
What a way to fuck up a BBQ.
ReplyDeleteToo bad Dylan Storm Roof didn't do a last-minute check just like this.
ReplyDelete"I wonder how the NRA would (will) spin this?"
ReplyDeleteThat's easy: more guns! If he had had another gun...or had the female companion been armed, he/she/they could have used the extra guns to keep him from using the other gun.
or... the guy had split personalities and it was a case of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun.
DeleteThe NRA would say, of course, that this was an accident. No one at the NRA would question the intelligence of the man who made himself the victim. In the world of guns, these things happen. I guess.
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
That's why Palins and alcohol is an accident or murder waiting to happen.
ReplyDeleteCan anyone say The Palins Family Drunken Brawl
There's a gun pointed at Ted Cruz's head
ReplyDeletehttp://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/06/ap_photo_positioned_and_cropped_to_point_gun_at_ted_cruzs_head.html
This is exactly the stupid kind of shit that can't be legislated and now becomes a statistic. And further cheapening those of us who own guns responsibly and advocate for better application of gun laws as written. But, you can't fix stupid. Darwin wins.
ReplyDeleteFREEEEDUMMMB for the Darwin Award winner. Hmm, I guess they DID pry his gun from his cold, dead hands.
ReplyDeleteLOL! Yes they did.
DeleteAs long as these people do this to themselves and not other innocent people no skin off my back. Am I a cold person???
9:40, No, no you are not. When I was rolling through and saw this headline. "And another one's gone and another one's gone. Another one bites the dust," popped right into my head.
DeleteThe first thing that went through my mind? Another case of Florida Man, as in, "Florida man shoots self in head..."
DeleteAs with Beaglemom, when they stop calling these incidents "accidents," maybe we're getting somewhere.
ReplyDeleteYou can't fix stupid. Sometimes, however, it cures itself.
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies lie with the poor woman who (a) witnessed this horrible thing, and (b) has to live with the memory of it, and the fact that her late friend was a total dumbass
ReplyDeleteShe's lucky he didn't point it at her to prove it wasn't loaded.
DeleteLol...
Deletethis was no accident]
ReplyDeleteAnd in Alaska too yesterday.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.adn.com/article/20150622/troopers-nikiski-man-killed-game-russian-roulette
I always thought Alcohol lowers your IQ but when you don't have lot of IQ in the first place - bingo , you've got a new hole in your head.
ReplyDeleteAlmost dumb enough to be a republican politician or a presenter on Fox "news"
I would say that low IQ people are more likely to drink, more likely to own multiple guns, and far more likely to die of a shooting. Oh, and lest we forget, more likely to say they believe in the Bible (although they don;t go to church) and more likely to vote GOP to cut their SNAP and other benefits.
ReplyDeleteFlorida is the Gunshine state!
ReplyDeleteI don't feel sorry for this idiot at all, at least he kill himself, since I doubt this is the first time he has "played" with his gun while drunk.
ReplyDeleteThe NRA would say this is not responsible gun ownership blah blah...
Totally reminds me of an episode of The IT Crowd (hilarious British comedy)
ReplyDeleteThe boss finds a gun in his drawer and...
http://youtu.be/guyELrUR6Gw
Thanks for the link. I love brit coms and never came across this one.
DeleteThis country has an illness and until enough citizens, politicians, journalists, opinonators of TV and cable news programs grow a set to go up against the NRA we will never get well.
ReplyDeleteNice!
ReplyDeleteMore organs available if he was otherwise healthy! Heart liver lung, two kidneys, a colon and some corneas!
Thanks dead dumb guy!!
You know this will be on those cartoons like south park
DeleteExcedrine Headache to infinity. Wayne La Pee Air would spin it like a pretzel. "Guns don't kill people but the liquor and bonfire industries do"
ReplyDeleteAll kidding aside, I feel badly for the witness. Rule number one in gun safety..... never aim at anything unless you intend to kill.
This self loathing 49 year old skipped that lesson.
Active Darwinism.
ReplyDeleteVernD