Next thing you know, smart phone manufacturers will be adding a caution label to their manuals warning people that taking selfies with your gun can be hazardous to your health.
We’re not sure if that would have helped a drunk young gent in Mexico (not pictured above) who inadvertently poked a hole in his brain housing group while posing for a pic with his Gat.
Life is hard. It’s even harder if you don’t follow the NRA’s Three Rules of Gun Safety.
I suppose this could be called an “irresponsible” gun owner of the day, but 1) stupidity like this doesn’t come across our desk everyday and 2) it wasn’t an American gun owner who did this.
Oh yeah, the NRA’s rules (paraphrasing):
1. Keep your muzzle pointed in a safe direction.
2. Keep your cotton pickin’ finger off the cotton pickin’ trigger until you’ve decided to shoot. (Otherwise known as keeping one’s booger picker off the bang switch).
3. Keep your heater unloaded unless and until it’s in service or being used.
Here’s the official story from the UK Telegraph:
A young Mexican man has died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while posing for a “selfie” with a loaded gun.
Oscar Otero Aguilar, who worked in a pet shop, is said to have been drinking with friends in Medero, in the north of the capital, Mexico City, when the accident happened.
A follower of the “selfie” craze – in which people pose for photographs they take of themselves – Otero Aguilar frequently posted pictures of himself on social media sites.
He had been at home with with his two housemates, Omar Abner Campos Vives and man known only as “El Paco,” when neighbours heard a gun go off followed by screaming.
One neighbour, Manfredo Paez Paez, 57, said: ”I heard a gunshot, and then I heard somebody screaming and realised somebody had been hurt. I called the police straight away and when they arrived they found that he was still alive.”
We’re not sure if the next to last thing through his mind was a realization that he screwed up badly.
Was the gun one of Mr. Holder exports out of USA?
I don’t believe this for a second. Mexicans aren’t allowed to own guns, they are outlawed… Unless maybe the laws don’t really stop people. Naw, the anti gun idiots assure me if guns are outlawed I’ll be completely safe, and won’t need to protect myself, because everyone will surely turn theirs in, especially the gang thugs!
Maybe he heard that chicks dig scars.
How better to impress the girls than a big scar in one’s forehead?
He should have swam across the Rio Grande instead. Obama would probably hook him up with some “companionship” as part of the aid package he’s giving to our “new citizens”.
Sam
Too bad, the gun looked like something I might have bought.
Do you think I could buy it at a reduced price? Wonder if they
put if up in some auction sites.
After all, it is used and needs a good cleaning.
If Darwin was alive to see this he would ask, ” I hope he’s not sharing DNA with anything “