Drunk Texan kills himself while playing with gun

[Cali_Democrat]

By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, June 27, 2013 15:49 EDT

A drunken Houston man shot himself in the head Thursday morning as he played with a gun in the parking lot of a local business, police said.

The man’s name has not yet been released, but The Houston Chronicle noted that the shooting took place around 2:30 a.m.

Witnesses claimed he was showing off the gun, a revolver, before pointing it at his head and pulling the trigger several times. It did not fire.

Then the man apparently decided to tempt fate once more. Witnesses reportedly said he put the gun to his head for a fourth and final time, pulling the trigger and sending a bullet into his brain.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/27/drunk-texan-kills-himself-while-playing-with-gun/

[aquart]

1. Very considerate not to take anyone with him.

Brownie points.

[Maximumnegro]

7. That is an amazing example of progressive PC humor

and/or widwest passive agressive sarcasm. Kudos.

[Aristus]

31. I don't think we progressives are under any obligation to show sympathy

to gun-crazed idiots. They deserve what they get.

I applaud him actually, for two reasons; removing his defective DNA from the gene pool, and not taking anybody with him...

[rdharma]

2. Bubba Roulette?!!!!

[premium]

3. Darwinism at it's best,

just clearing out the gene pool.
What kind of a fucking idiot puts a gun to their head and pulls the trigger several times?
Answer, a drunken idiot playing with a gun.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. Sad but...

...evolution at work. I guess some folks who think they're fine but can't actually hold their liquor will sometimes gun themselves down.

[Berlin Expat]

17. Sad, but

not as Darwin Award winning as the Houston man a decade ago who though it'd be a brilliant idea to play Russian roulette with a .45 pistol.

Yes, a pistol.

You can guess how that ended.

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2000-04.html

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

20. Yes that one is rather extraordinarily Darwinian

BTW, I used to work with a Russian guy, a programmer. He said what you see in the movies is Americanized Russian roulette. His story was that when political embarrassments occurred, six leaders would sit at a table and play roulette with a revolver loaded with 5 bullets. The survivor would deny any involvement with the problem situation.

[EvilAL]

46. If I was the first guy and

the revolver didn't fire, would the rest of them shoot themselves in the head? I don't think I'd trust handing a gun to a guy I know will kill us all to be the survivor. heheh

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

56. I'm kind of thinking...

...it was just Russian humor, but that may be how it happen. I wouldn't expect such a survivor to tell. One round and five empties seems more realistic but Viktor had an odd sense of humor.

[geek tragedy]

4. Darwin roulette. nt

[NightWatcher]

5. Yay, more oxygen for the rest of us.

[lpbk2713]

6. Most definitely going to leave a mark.

I feel sorry for his survivors. Him, not so much.

[geckosfeet]

9. Was his name George Bush?

[flamingdem]

10. +++

[Aerows]

14. I can't tell if he isn't smart enough to pull a trigger

or too dumb to find the gun. Either way, he's not clued in enough to rid humanity of himself.

[lpbk2713]

15. Bush would miss the target.

Unless of course Deadeye Dick Cheney was there to assist.

[geckosfeet]

26. Hmm. Ideas ideas. Buy them a case of beer and send them out hunting together.....

[johnp3907]

19. It says the guy sent a bullet "into his brain."

[NoPasaran]

21. Well that was some real precise marksmanship to hit such a small target

Yeah, I am so going to Hell.

[rdharma]

11. As Republican Governor Perry would say........

"Whoops!"

[kestrel91316]

12. Darwin award. Oh, and we need MOAR GUNZ!!!!!

[madinmaryland]

13. A responsible gun owner...

until he wasn't. Thankfully, he did not take anyone else with him.

RIP, and condolences to his family.

[Jenoch]

28. Where in the story

was there any indication the guy was a responsible gun owner?

[madinmaryland]

29. All gun owners are responsible...

So says the NRA.

Did I forget this?

[Jenoch]

33. We don't know anything about

this guy other than he was either stupid, suicidal, or both. If you have links to stories with more information, I would be interested in reading it.

[madinmaryland]

37. Oh, FFS. Repeating NRA meme's is not a response.

[Jenoch]

40. What NRA meme?

We know nothing about this guy, except that he shot himself dead.

[madinmaryland]

41. As usual, the NRA'ers can't see the elephant in the room. nt

[Jenoch]

47. I am not now, have never been, nor will

I ever become a member of the NRA. i am interested in the facts. The facts are, we know few facts as they are connected to this story. I am also a bit of a contrarian.

[Generic Brad]

45. Yep. They are responsible

Responsible for much carelessness, heartbreak, accidents, and acts of aggression.

[Hoyt]

32. They all say/think they are.

[Jenoch]

34. Acxording to you and your posts,

all gun owners are militia bubbas from Georgia. You really should get out and see more of the U.S.

[madinmaryland]

35. Yeah. I have seen it in central PA, Ohio, Kentucky and even in western Maryland, where they

are all jack-booted gun-nuts. We've seen the country, and they are fucking everywhere.

[Jenoch]

39. You keep using words like 'all'.

The kind of gun owner you describe are a small minority of gun owners. Come on up to Minnesota, we're a solid Democratic state with gun owners who are not bubbas.

[Hoyt]

42. Not small minority. You just won't admit facts.

[Jenoch]

48. I am a huge fan of facts.

If you provide links to some facts, I will enthusiastically read them.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. What was going through his mind?

Never mind, I think I know.

[madinmaryland]

30. It was a VERY fast thought.

[Turbineguy]

18. A brother of Irving?

[nomorenomore08]

22. How do you defend yourself from a drunk/crazed gunman, when you yourself are that gunman?

[Cali_Democrat]

25. The solution is always MOAR GUNZ

[nomorenomore08]

44. Pretty much. Which is completely ridiculous, when you consider how many irresponsible gun owners

there are out there. Even if the vast majority at least relatively responsible - i.e. keeping their guns in a safe place and not brandishing them while intoxicated - the sheer number of firearms out there means a whole lot more of these incidents will happen.

Granted, I know that drastically reducing the number of guns which already exist in this country, is probably unrealistic. But further increasing said number is no solution at all.

[arely staircase]

51. the only defense against your idiot self with a gun

is your idiot self without a gun

[nomorenomore08]

53. Exactly. If you want, or feel you need, to own a gun, then be my guest.

But leave the damn thing alone when you're drinking!

[NoGOPZone]

23. Gotta admire his tenacity nt

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

24. and sadly, they took his gun from his cold dead hand.

[valerief]

27. One less moron in the world. nt

[struggle4progress]

36. Well, that's sad.

[Brigid]

38. Doesn't something like this happen . . .

Just about every day in TX?

[Initech]

43. Reasons why I will never own a gun #2454115664

[arely staircase]

49. darwin award nominee

TX Division

[BainsBane]

50. law-abiding gun owner strikes again

[bravenak]

52. A good guy whit a gun stops a bad guy with a gun?

I guess?

[Comrade Grumpy]

54. You could probably read that same headline every day for the last 150 years in Texas.

"If you're goin' to Dallas
Better take your razor and your gun,
'Cuz there's so much shit in Texas
you're bound to step in some."

--Johnny Winter, "Dallas"

[sigmasix]

55. sad really

Im sure this man didnt want to end up an idiotic drunken dead guy. When he was a child he may have had aspirations of being a state park warden or fireman. I'm sure the years and the failures piled-up to make that childhood dream an unattainable wish. Gun lifestyle pushers and drug pushers are the same way; they talk of the incredible power one feels when using their products and the manhood confirming honor it confirms on the owner. Mixing this kind of gun mindset with alcohol and family problems almost always results in the use of the gun for one thing or another. Maybe this poor man was going through a difficult point in his life and had been subject to gun lifestyle ideaology and trivialization. The drunken variation on russian roulette was a final scream for help- did the whitnesses just stand and watch without trrying to stop him kill himself?
So sad. So very very sad. life is an infinitely valuable commodity that should never be refused or misconstrued as an inconvenient short condition. I hope his loved ones are okay and able to learn from his mistakes