Man Shoots Self In Head During Gun Safety Lesson

[PetrucciFan]

Very sad....

A Missouri man reportedly shot himself in the head accidentally while teaching his girlfriend about gun safety.

According to witnesses James Looney was insistent on giving his girlfriend a personal lesson in firearm safety Friday before taking her to a shooting range, MyFOXMemphis reported.

As part of the tutorial, Looney demonstrated different safety features on several firearms then put the guns to his head and asked if they would fire, Jefferson County Sheriff told the station. The third gun actually went off.

The 40-year-old was pronounced dead at a local hospital the next morning — the same day he was to take his girlfriend to the range, the station reported

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554 ... latestnews

[suthdj]

Can anyone say "dumb"

[FlynJay]

Well, she is never going to touch a firearm again.

[Carrots]

We have two other threads on this one already

[TxDrifter]

I was coming to post this in here as well, but someone beat me to it. My first thought was he forgot or ignored RULE #1

ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.
This is the primary rule of gun safety. A safe direction means that the gun is pointed so that even if it were to go off it would not cause injury or damage. The key to this rule is to control where the muzzle or front end of the barrel is pointed at all times. Common sense dictates the safest direction, depending on different circumstances.

My second thought was sympathy for her having watched this and the likelihood of it scarring her for the rest of her life. Apparently he lacked that common sense as a demonstration at the range with a confirmed safe direction to point the gun would have sufficed. The unfortunate part is she may become a new anti-gun activist and he fed the fire to recruit more because of this extremely unfortunate incident.

[Keith B]

Original thread here http://www.texasshooting.com/TexasCHL_F ... 83&t=28078" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;