Man Trying To Prove Gun Won't Fire Shoots Self In Head
Source: AP
OVERGAARD, Ariz. (AP) -- A 23-year-old Phoenix man is in critical condition after shooting himself in the head while trying to show that a handgun could not be fired while he had the safety mechanism engaged.
The Navajo County Sheriff's Office said Christen Reece fired his handgun Wednesday while shooting with six other people outside Overgaard in eastern Arizona.
Friends took Reece to the local fire department, where he was treated before being airlifted to a Scottsdale hospital for surgery.
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iandhr
(6,852 posts)What a maroon.
Ultra maroon.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)his guns, then goes out to convince the gun yahoos they are wrong.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Deluded, perhaps, but not innocent.
For his family's sake, I hope he pulls through.
onethatcares
(16,192 posts)I wonder if the idiot has insurance under the ACA or is going to allow we citizens to pay for their stupidity.
Sometimes I just wonder.
KG
(28,753 posts)Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)3catwoman3
(24,058 posts)...would be right on the money.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)and then some
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Safety's on - watch this - you can't fire it
Is this a case of he wouldn't have been shot if other's were armed. Oh - they were.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Now Bobby Lee ya had better be careful pullin the trigger like that. Yeah Right Ernest I said the dang thing won't fire...Click...See....Click.....boom!
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Isn't there an old joke about a yokel's last words? "Watch this. Hold my beer."
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)"Fuck them alligators"!!!!
Famous last words.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)This opened his mind.
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)Hell, gunz ain't safe!
EEO
(1,620 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)win stupid prizes.
world wide wally
(21,756 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)Maybe we can turn this into a national contest for Gun Nuts, kinda like Beer Pong, but with loaded guns.
Billy Bob, you go first.
Don't forget the video so we can put you up on the YouTube.
Kennah
(14,337 posts)... asshats are on sale, and probably at Wal-Mart.
Rule #1: All Guns Are Always Loaded
Generally, one can stop right there. I mean if one took it seriously one would not point a gun at one's own head unless one were suicidal--or, as I already alluded to, an asshat.