Discussion: Texas Teen Accidentially Kills Self While Taking Selfie With Gun

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So few words; so many lives.

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Darwin Award Winner, Posthumous Division.

Feel sorry for him and his family, but really when you have an unfettered gun culture these events are a predictable certainty. (It’s just like Global Warming, you can be certain it’s happening even though you can’t predict the weather with 100% accuracy).

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This is what happens when society treats guns like toys. I grew up around guns my entire life (rural, country life and all that) and it would never have occurred to me do something like this with a gun.

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The story title makes this incident appear funnier than it actually appears to be.

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Investigators say Smith had found a gun

Anyone recently lose a gun?

Any kind of liability? - just kidding.

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Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. Unfortunately, it happens WAY too often when people don’t realize those guns have bullets in them. Just collateral damage, right NRA?

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I blame Kim Kardashian. But not guns. it’s never guns.

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Thinning the herd. A time honored evolutionary mechanism, ridding the species of defective gene pool anomalies.

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Texas Teen Accidentially Kills Self While Taking Selfie With Gun

Well, there’s his problem. He should take a selfie with a camera.

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You don’t even want to see the guy that took a selfie with a lawnmower.

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Actually if all people were accountable for their weapons, it might not have been “lost” so easily. If stolen, you need to report it. But if you do private sales, you need to report that, and if you don’t, you are liable. Perhaps not for a murder if a person uses it, but financially liable in civil suits. You’d find a lot less guns falling into the wrong hands.

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My condolences to this young man’s family and friends.

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Snowball
Hell

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Would this be the same family that raised a person that thought there was a proud cachet attached to recklessly, fatally brandishing a loaded handgun during the act of taking a gratuitous selfie photo?

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Well, the only way to prevent this is to make sure there are more guns around…

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And you know this to be true? You know any teenagers who follow everything their parents ever taught them?

Never mind. My answer would still be yes. YMMV

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Anyone with relatives in Houston should sleep better knowing they’re incrementally safer than before this happened. Recklessly waving around a gun during a selfie progresses to recklessly waving it around in a park, a theater, a bar, on the street, or elsewhere. Good riddance.

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Not every gun knows stupid when it sees it, but a few of them do.

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I’m having to grasp this story in pieces.

Why would someone wish to take a photo of themselves?
Why would someone wish to take a photo of themselves while brandishing a gun?
When you “find a gun”, why would you want to take a picture of yourself holding it?
Having done that, for whatever reason, why would you wish to post it online?
Are there no pictures of people with guns online, thus creating a void that needs to be filled?
How would a gun go off while it was merely posing for a photo?

I understand little of either selfies or guns, so little of this story makes sense to me.

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