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Originally Posted by ImGod
Florida man shoots himself in the head while demonstrating gun safety
The moron way.
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Oh God. The comments on that article are horrible. I can't help but wonder whether or not the media are getting this right. First of all, the victim is less than a man. That fucking headline is total click bait. The 18 year-old lost his father to murder a week after his mother died of cancer. The father was killed in a home invasion, so I can't even imagine the paranoia that kid was facing. Confronting his own mortality in a time that young people are supposed to feel invincible.
Incidentally, the father's case I found all over pro-gun sites, because the assailants entered the house crying
"Police! Police!" *
*Warning, all these links contain paranoid gun owners who think they are the risen Jesus and could never do wrong. Get a barf bag if you are going to read.
Here is another link about the case that gives a little more info. Watch the video.
Seriously, I have to wonder if this might have been suicide. If not, I will say that the trauma of witnessing his father's murder might have lead to an increased sense of needing to protect himself. Immense paranoia. Add to that the hysteria about guns in the news and you have a perfect storm. Feeling the need to defend his choice to carry a weapon, which he was unschooled in, and proving it to his friends.
Shit. I remember being 18. I was morbid as hell and convinced I was about to be a statistic. Then my dad died of cancer and I was completely alone and I felt like the world was coming to get me. I didn't have to witness my father being gunned down though.
God, this is such a tragic case. And seriously, I loathe people who take gleeful judgement in the worst of cases but seriously, shut the fuck up and let people grieve. Also, I am banning ANY news media with facebook integration. That shit is just sick and breeds the worst kind of bullshit.