18 Sept 12
They never learn, because they donāt want to!
Three days ago, in CT, a well-known, former West Point football player died in an apparent gun-accident, in his own home.
He shot himself in the head with his own pistol (45ACP, brand/type unknown. Brand of ammunition also unknown). Investigators have decided that it was an accident, rather than a suicide.
Decedent was apparently ādemonstrating the safety of his pistolā to friends, by pointing it at his own head and simultaneously pressing the trigger. The magazine had been removed, but there was still, of course, a round in the chamber. The gun functioned normally, and idiot was DRT.
News reports go on and on with regard to what a ātragedyā this all was, then add that the decedentās future was so otherwise āpromising.ā
I, for one, have a hard time believing people who make a habit of pointing guns at their own heads have much of a future at all, but maybe Iām just old-fashioned!
In any event, one hand-wringing newspaper report described the event thus,
āThe magazine had been removed, but one round was āhiddenā in the gunās chamber.ā
Wow! Do cartridges āhideā in chambers of your guns? The nerve of them!
Many in the media, who are too timid to so much as touch a real gun, apparently believe pointing pistols at oneās own head is okay, so long as they are āunloaded.ā When those same media types stop underestimating the intelligence of their readers long enough to actually learn the way autoloading pistols work and the way real Operators handle them, perhaps they wonāt continue to display their own ignorance quite so blatantly!
/John
