19 year old deleted his manhood while cleaning his new gun!

[TexasProgresive]

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- A teenager is recovering after police say he shot himself in the penis and testicle while cleaning a gun he just bought.

http://www.11alive.com/News/Odd/256361/186/Police-Fla-Teen-Accidentally-S

[geckosfeet]

1. The accidental shooting while cleaning story - always fishey if you ask me

To clean a pistol - remove magazine check chamber. Remove and disassemble slide. Gun incapable of firing. Proceed with cleaning. He could not have been cleaning the gun. He pulled the trigger of a fully assembled pistol.

Some pistols will fire without a magazine if there is a round in the chamber. But you still need to pull the trigger. Pulling the trigger of a gun that is pointed at yourself is an amazingly stupid thing to do.

In any case, removing the magazine and then making sure that the gun is not loaded are steps and 1 and 2 when preparing to clean a pistol.

[Democracyinkind]

3. Agree.

I am anything but an expert - purely military, no private training or expertise - but shooting yourself while cleaning your gun is downright impossible. Freak accidents may occur, always by fault of the operator, but even those happen before or after the gun is cleaned.

[Hangingon]

7. The story mentions marijuana in the residence

Maybe the first consideration should be don't clean or play with pistols under the influence

[Jenoch]

20. It is also against federal law to be in

possession of illegal drugs and firearms.

[bowens43]

2. Good. Might teach the idiot and his friends a lesson. Stay away from guns.

only people intent on doing hram to others or harm themselves have guns

[premium]

6. I must be doing something wrong,

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the 2 guns I own have never hurt anyone nor have they hurt me.

[Common Sense Party]

17. Complete nonsense, as usual. The VAST majority of us with guns have NO intent to

harm anyone, ourselves or others. And wow! amazingly, we seem to make it through every day, every month, every year without harming ANYONE! How does that work?

Of course, you didn't say "harm," did you? You said "doing hram to others".



What did you mean, I wonder?

HRAM Human Resource Association of the Midlands (Omaha, NE)
HRAM Holy Royal Arch Mason
HRAM Hardened Random Access Memory
HRAM Hierarchical Random Access Memory
HRAM Health Risk Assessment Model
HRAM His/Her Royal Apostolic Majesty

[xfundy]

4. No worries.

After all, he's already got his "replacement."

[premium]

11. oooooh, the obligatory "replacement" (read penis) reference,

how original.

[CokeMachine]

19. God you're funny -- not!!

But keep trying.

[jeepnstein]

25. Maybe he'll get one of those Steve Austing "Six Million Dollar Man" conversion jobs instead.

You know, "We can build him better, stronger, faster than before..."

[lastlib]

5. He's gonna need to buy some assault weapons now.........

...gotta compensate...........


ANYONE who shoots himself in the jewels should permanently lose their rights to own or carry a firearm--too stupid to have one.

[premium]

12. And another "gotta compensate" (read penis) comment.

C'mon, you can certainly be more original than that.

[lastlib]

13. no need to be......

I just calls 'em like they plays 'em. WTBD?

[DonP]

15. OTOH, he's probably still better equipped than some gun grabbers

[LAGC]

9. Darwin Award candidate?

At least there will be no off-spring with the same "stupidity genes."

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

16. No.

You need to delete your life to actually win.

[Ghost in the Machine]

21. No you don't, you just have to render yourself incapable of passing along your genes.. n/t

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

23. My bad. ;)

Personally, I find the stories of those who actually die more interesting.

[Bay Boy]

26. I'm not sure that makes you a ...

...nice person. Enjoying the suffering of others? Not too cool.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

27. Granted

Of course within the realm of ideas including the Darwin Awards (the nature of which includes mostly death and suffering) my preference is for stories where the qualifying event is a rather quick, and hopefully painless, death (albeit sometimes spectacular) to accidents that feature someone maimed and/or suffering for life as a result.

No doubt most of these stories have some entertainment appeal but all of it rather gruesome if we think about it.

[ManiacJoe]

10. Slow news day? The article is 8 months old.

See the previous discussion(s).

[ileus]

14. when life saving devices attack.

While designed to save lives misuse can result in unintended injury or death.

[gejohnston]

18. and his mom is conflicted

she is glad that his big head will have to start doing the thinking
She is sad that he won't be making any grand kids.

[Ghost in the Machine]

22. I wonder why he wasn't charged with underage possession of a handgun? gotta be 21 to own one n/t

[downbythelake]

24. close

You need to be 21 to purchase a handgun from a FFL

Every state you can own/posses a handgun at 18. You can also buy a handgun in a private sale at 18.

[Ghost in the Machine]

28. Well, I'll stand partially corrected (for now, it could turn to fully corrected), but I looked up my

State laws, which say an 18 year old can legally possess and transport an unloaded handgun, provided it is secured away, and there is no ammo within reach. If I find a law that says an 18 y/o can buy one legally through private sale, I'll be fully corrected.

I'm only going by what my 20 y/o son was told at 3 different places last week... 18 for rifles, 21 for handguns, though they were probably all FFL dealers, even if they were pawn shops.

I have no problem admitting if I'm wrong, even on an anonymous board like this.

Peace!.....and welcome to DU..

Ghost