Local news reports as well as TTAG where they can't make enough jokes about it. You know, according to them, these irresponsible guys are so few we can just laugh them off.
A 22-year-old man is dead and a 27-year-old man is in jail in what police said was a fatal accident caused by one man trying to cure the other of the hiccups.
Fort Hood soldier Patrick Edward Myers was charged with manslaughter in connection with the deadly incident. Myers is in Bell County Jail with bail set at $1 million.
Far from being laughable, like the clowns at The Truth About Guns find it, this incident illustrates how lawful gun owners are often not fit to own guns in the first place.An arrest affidavit said Myers, the victim and another man were drinking alcohol and watching football Sunday night at a home when the victim got the hiccups.
To make the victim’s hiccups go away, Myers produced a handgun and pointed it at the man’s head in order to scare him. Believing the gun to be loaded with dummy rounds, Myers then fired. A bullet struck the victim in his eye.
Of course, it also illustrates how guns and alcohol don't go together. As our commenter Texas Colt carry recently put it, this is never acceptable.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
Why are you doubling up on stories? Green Goblin already reported on this.
ReplyDeleteGreggy, per usual, you miss the point.
ReplyDeleteMike was illustrating the new gunloon 'strategery' of ridiculing gun accidents instead of recognizing them for the tragedies they are.
What gunloons fail to get is that, in the particular instance, may lives have been destroyed, ruined or otherwise damaged. We tend to superficially see this story as 'oh, well...1 dead guy. Too bad.'
But that's not the whole story. Certainly, you have a dead victim. You also have a fellow soldier whose life is pretty much destroyed. And you have the families of these two soldiers whose lives will never be the same.
No, Green Goblin, you miss the point. There's no way to protect idiots from themselves. It's that simple.
DeleteGreggy, actually there is.
DeleteWe do it all the time. That's why we have seatbelts, crash standards and the like in cars. Will it prevent all idiots from doing harm? No, but think how many are saved.
Similarly, we don't let anyone claim to be an aircraft pilot or doctor. Again, this won't completely prevent pilots or doctors from doing idiotic things but it significantly reduces the liklihood.
Will you lay off this Greggy business? My name's Greg. You neglect the determination of idiots. They insist on doing stupid things. What I don't understand is why you care when they hurt themselves.
ReplyDeleteWhat is your solution for keeping alcohol away from guys like this?
ReplyDeleteMy solution is to keep guns away from idiots like this.
DeleteBecause guns are the only things that allow idiots to do stupid things...
DeleteI heard about your solutions for guns many times. What about the alcohol? You said guns AND alcohol don't mix.
DeleteDoesn't sound like a gun accident to me. He pointed the gun, pulled the trigger, and the gun fired a bullet. Sounds like the gun did exactly what it is supposed to do under those circumstances.
ReplyDeleteNegligence is the right word.
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