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Man Teaching Gun Safety Shoots Himself
* By LILY FU

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - A Missouri man who was teaching his girlfriend about firearm safety on Friday pointed a gun at his head to prove a point and accidentally shot himself dead.

The Jefferson County Sheriff said that James Looney, 40, of Imperial, Mo., was teaching his girlfriend about the different safety mechanisms on guns by putting guns to his head and asking her if they would go off. The first two guns did not go off, but the third gun actually fired.

Looney was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead the next morning.

According to witnesses, Looney was going to take his girlfriend to the shooting range the next day, but insisted on firearm safety the day prior.

People accidentally shooting themselves in the head isn't uncommon. Earlier this month, a Tennessee man suffered a non life-threatening injury after he accidentally shot himself in the head. Last month, a Florida man was handling an unfamiliar gun when it went off and shot him in the head .

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/dpgo_man_teaching_gun_safety_shoots_himself_head_lwf_092209_3645535

I LOL'd

Well, let's hope he qualifies for a Darwin Award!

He certainly should, his name sort of explains it all really-Looney!!

The only thing better would be if he were playing Russian Roulette with an autogun...

Vulkan77 wrote:He certainly should, his name sort of explains it all really-Looney!!

You only get the Award if you failed to breed before you die.

Wow, lots of strangeness in that article.

The guy is from a placed called Imperial - fitting for a GW board and ironic that someone from there would be more worthless with a firearm than the tabletop guardsman. His last name is Looney and the news article writer's is Lily Fu - both pretty funny and strange names that fit in with the stranger than fiction story of a guy shooting himself to demonstrate gun safety. Good thing he didn't try to do with it a glock first time...and anyone wanna bet that his ex-g/f will never set foot in a firing range now?

Like the saying goes if at at first you don't succeed in shooting yourself: pull, pull again!

/Cue more bad jokes especially ones related to losing one's head


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According to a comment on the article the guy was drinking which makes a little more sense given the ridiculousness of it all but still incredibly dumb nonetheless.

"Will this kill m-" - BANG -

"I'm going to go with 'yes'"

Ah, the law of natural selection. The stupid die. It's too bad that he lived to be 40. Apparently he wasn't born too bright. Funny natural selection didn't choose him earlier.

UNFRIGGIN BELIEVIBLE

The lessons in "how not to do things" continue... , that is seriously crazy stuff...

lol, speaking as someone from Missouri, (although it is STL, so i guess it doesn't count), this is funny as hell. We get some crazy stuff going on in the middle of the state

Do you know how to spot a real firearms expert? He's the one not pointing it at his head.

Yeah, let's insult all people from Missouri because of one person.

MadEdric wrote:Yeah, let's insult all people from Missouri because of one person.

Isn't that how its supposed to work?

You bring shame upon this house young Jedi... now you shall know the wrath of your kinship.

Or something like that, but moving along. I wonder what Callifornias collective character would look like... OMFG MY EYES!!! NOOOOOOOO!!!!

I thought all americans were the topic title.

*ducks*

In his defense, Missourians do tend to talk about their state as if it's superior, especially superior to Kansas.

Wrexasaur wrote:I wonder what Callifornias collective character would look like...

First off, it's "Kalifornia"...
Secondly, it's just as vapid as Hollywood portrays.
But, on the upside, the girls are all hawt & slutty just like on TV.

Just a thought here, but don't you normally check to see if a weapon is loaded or not before you attempt to do anything with it?

Especially something as stupid as pointing it at your head and pulling the trigger... (which I imagine you should not do ever, even if you are sure the gun is not loaded).

Missouri is the 'show me state.'

SilverMK2 wrote:Just a thought here, but don't you normally check to see if a weapon is loaded or not before you attempt to do anything with it?

Especially something as stupid as pointing it at your head and pulling the trigger... (which I imagine you should not do ever, even if you are sure the gun is not loaded).

Yeah, you look down the barrel.

Or, you can release the mag *after* racking the slide...

n0t_u wrote:Yeah, you look down the barrel.

Guess you could also check to see if your name is written on any of the bullets and feel free to blaze away at your head if it is not...

warpcrafter wrote:In his defense, Missourians do tend to talk about their state as if it's superior, especially superior to Kansas.

Well, you got half of that statement right.

Nice title btw

Isn't somebody going to link to the video of the black cop shooting himself in the foot? I would, but I'm at work.

SilverMK2 wrote:Just a thought here, but don't you normally check to see if a weapon is loaded or not before you attempt to do anything with it?

And yet, people still fail to do this (isn't there a youtube video of a CIA instructor shooting himself in the foot with his sidearm during a gun safety lecture?)

People tend to just be stupid around guns. I almost cold-cocked a guy this week for pointing a gun at my head. I was at the Sig Saur booth at a security trade show when out of the corner of my eye I saw a gun barrel coming up on level with my face. It was a display piece, so not only was it unloaded, but the firing pin was removed, but still, my first reflex was to step back and then deck whoever was holding it. Fortunately for my criminal record, I aborted the punch and instead grabbed the guy's wrist and yanked it down. He was just some dude who saw the guns and went, 'oh, shiny,' and was pointing the display piece down the exhibition hall, and yeah, there should've been no way a loaded gun was just sitting out there on the table, but they're not called accidents because you planned on them happening. Y'know the whole, 'treat every gun as if it were loaded,' because then if the million to one bad luck chance happens, you catch it.

There was a case in the morning newspaper in the UK today.

A police firearms instructor was fined £8,000 and his force was fined £40,000 plus £25,000 costs for bad safety procedures at a weapons training course.

The ammunition for the course, consisting of a mixture of calibres and including live and dummy rounds, was kept in a Quality Street (popular brand of assorted chocolates) tin.

The cop reached in the tin for a dummy 0.44" magnum round, and accidentally took up and loaded a live one, after which he shot an ex-rifle marksman in the abdomen.

The court of enquiry said, "It was a disaster waiting to happen."

There was a story a while ago about a guy who's dog shot him dead.

I live in Missouri and this article does not suprise me. I say I am from Upstate New York and only live in Missouri because that is where my pay check is. They do not call this state Misery for nothing.

I have seen alot of this when I was a cop here and it does not suprise me at all.

barlio wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:In his defense, Missourians do tend to talk about their state as if it's superior, especially superior to Kansas.

Well, you got half of that statement right.

Nice title btw

Isn't somebody going to link to the video of the black cop shooting himself in the foot? I would, but I'm at work.

Which half? Because I strongly disagree. And the whole 'Show me state" thing is just a cover for their lack of imagination in my opinion.

SilverMK2 wrote:Guess you could also check to see if your name is written on any of the bullets and feel free to blaze away at your head if it is not...

See my sig.

Oh and I laughed too.