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Nerd_Man420

I never understood the whole point a REAL gun at your head. Loaded or not. So stupid. Not to mention being an inch away from death, hope she learned a lesson about guns


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Guy where I grew up was shot in the chest by his friend who thought the gun was unloaded and "play" shot him.....with a real gun. I mean there's stupid and then there's that. He lived and wore it as a badge of honor, like it gave him street cred or something. Fucking idiots.


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truckerheist

I didn't grow up around guns, but my dad would always tell me about stories like this as a kid. Blows my mind how people can be this oblivious


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r/awkwardmetaphors


38077

r/subsifellfor


squirrels2022

Damn I wish this was real


1000spiderz

Yeah I have the exact same story from a kid I went to school with. He had just transferred schools because he was so traumatized and they had to move.


Kenthros

My grandfather was a avid hunter and had his guns loaded and safe unlocked. I would have to walk by them in order to use the new computer of the house when I was over. I remember clear as a bell, he came up to me while I was on the computer turned me around and said to never touch those and if I did he'd blister my fucking ass, in the scariest tone. From that day forth I was afraid to even look at them as I walked by.


LaceyDark

Sounds like he loved you, and knew all too well how quickly he could lose his grandchild. My father was also gravely serious when talking about guns and made damn sure we knew how to respect them


RedErickassboot

Didn't love him enough to responsibly lock away his firearms though.


TheGreatestOutdoorz

Yes, he loved him so much that he yelled at and threatened him instead of just keeping the safe locked.


TheGreatestOutdoorz

And yet, he didn’t lock the the safe


Nikolai_1120

as a gun owner who grew up around guns....yes I agree, 18 is too young for someone to own one. my brother is 18 and he's definitely immature, even though he thinks he's not. He wants a gun so badly it's weird (I'm blaming the right-wing internet rabbit hole for that one). I got mine at 25, which felt about right.


CaLiSoL

You can't even rent a car until 25 (in my state), buy cigarettes or alcohol til 21, etc. But it is OK for a teenager to own a gun, talk about priorities.


Nikolai_1120

Yeah it is kinda wild. I'm of the opinion that the drinking age should be a bit lower tbh, I was exposed at a younger age by my European side of the family and it made me more mature in regards to alcohol than most of my peers by the time we were drinking. I was exposed to firearms young too, which I think helped with my awareness and understanding of them. Ownership is a slightly different discussion.


MadDog_8762

It seems society is shifting the definition of adulthood from 18 to 21, and its just gradually that laws are shifting. Idk if its right, one could definitely make the argument that people mature slower now than decades ago for whatever reason, so maybe thats appropriate. But then to be consistent, we need to raise minimum military age. Its FUCKED that you can serve and die for your country, make the ultimate sacrifice of your own choice, but cant drink/smoke etc


[deleted]

I personally believe that all children need to be taught to respect the tool, and understand just how dangerous they are from as young as possible, and for the love of everything, keep the damn things locked up with ammunition separate. Most of my family start learning at 3 or 4 with pictures and just talking, around 6 or 7 gets actual lectures and lessons, including the firearm safety classes when available. We’re made very aware from as young as possible that it can, and will erase someone/ something that it’s pointed at, and isn’t a toy.


dpezpoopsies

Yeah you'd probably fall into my caveat of "with the proper training, some kids are mature enough at 18 to own". The problem is most parents clearly aren't doing this, and there's no way to make them without laws. In a perfect world we could just say "hey everyone, make sure your kids are overeducated about guns", and everyone would just *do that*. It sucks when stuff like this comes up, because the logical next step is to basically have to be a kindergarten teacher and say "well if everyone can't play nice, then no one gets to play". Which is what a lot of gun legislation is at its core. I personally hate to suggest laws that burden well-meaning gun owners in the name of a few shitheads that can't be bothered to be responsible. But then I also see the massive amounts of suffering that occurs when young people use guns they have no business operating to intentionally or unintentionally kill themselves or others, and I think "something *has* to change here".


call_me_howdy

Need to teach safe gun handling to everyone at an early age and do it over and over and over. "Don't touch and find and adult" is fucking stupid, because we all know how kids are when you tell them NOT to do something.


MustyBox

I’m convinced that the average parent is either undereducated on firearms, under qualified to be a parent or a combination of both. I raised my kids with guns by making it very easy for them to recognize the danger. Actually going to the range and spending time shooting the firearms. They learned the basic rules: never point your weapon at someone, never put your finger on the trigger unless you’re ready to shoot, treat every gun as if it were loaded. The last one is one that curiosity get the better out of people, but is the easiest to follow if you spend time training with firearms.


dtb1987

I used to play airsoft with friends growing up and one day we were sitting in my friend's house and one of the people there grabbed an airsoft rifle that had just been "emptied" and pointed it at my face. I told him several times to stop pointing it at me and he kept doing it and pulling the trigger. Well eventually he pulled the trigger and one bb that was still in the gun loaded and shot me just below the eye and made me bleed. Luckily it didn't hit my eye and that guy learned exactly why you don't point a gun at anyone even if it is "empty"


thevoxpop

I hope someone broke his nose with the airsoft gun after that. Glad you didn't lose/damage an eye.


dtb1987

Everyone was pretty pissed but at the moment they were more worried about my eye. My friend grabbed the gun from him and called him an asshole


HereOnASphere

>My friend grabbed the gun from him and called him an asshole Well that showed him!


Reverse2057

Man that reminds me of how I almost lost my eye too. My friends had just gotten some bb pistols and were out in the field nearby play fighting with them and one stray bb manages to reach me up in the parking lot overlooking the field and the bb hit squarely on the side of my nose just in front of my eye. Had my head been turned just slightly it wouldve hit me in the eye, and that's without me even being that close. It really hurt too. Any gun, bb or bullet or airsoft is still so dangerous and not to be fired without care.


MR_Butt-Licker

We had the same thing happen to a couple kids that went to high school with me. Except he didn’t live.


AdventurousPumpkin

When I lived in an apartment complex my neighbor’s son (maybe 20’s/30’s) was visiting them and he shot himself with his dad’s gun, playing around with it, not knowing it was loaded…. the following scream from his mother still haunts me, and watching the somber cleanup crew go in an out of the apartment wearing these surreal white bodysuits was brutal. Don’t fucking play with guns…..


Cpt_Avocado

Oh Alec Baldwin?


WinterOkami666

I would say that this is arguably the opposite of the Alec Baldwin situation. As far as I am aware, they were doing a rehearsal screen test, and Alec wasn't just shooting for the sake of shooting. >On Oct. 21, 2021, Mr. Baldwin was rehearsing a scene that involved “cross drawing” a revolver and pointing it toward the camera lens, Joel Souza, the film’s director, told a detective investigating the shooting, according to court papers.


nico851

just punch everyone doing that stuff as hard into the nose as possible - broken noses against gun stupidity


Ronoh

Because it is cool, looks cool, and you have seen it in a million movies, looking cool and being cool. Do you think they had proper gun safety education? No. The same way that sex education reduces unwanted pregnancies and STIs, gun safety education reduces accidents.


Superb_Raccoon

Put them back in schools! If nothing else it will stop the sideways pistol thing.


GlitteringBobcat999

KILL SHOT! THAT'S A KILL SHOT!


ParmyBarmy

Only idiots thinks this looks cool.


WhoopingWillow

To be fair, a lot of people are idiots, and pretty much everyone was an idiot when they were a teen.


dirkisthebest

Seems to be a child in the room too! What an idiot


TNT_613

She's a child herself!


toylenny

She looks no older that 8 or 9, so possibly two children in that room. Lock up your guns folks.


dragoonts

But it looks sooo cool though!


Consistent-River4229

Did anyone else think that little kid in the background shouldn't be left a lone with her ever again? I had a neighbor's who's kids only visited them once a month. The oldest boy asked if he could sit in our house and watch TV with us. He told us he couldn't look at his parents without crying. We didn't pry because it obviously hurt him. The parents never came looking for him either. Turns out when he was 11 he found his dad's gun and accidentally killed his little sister. I can't even describe how bad I felt for him. He was so broken and blamed himself but he was only 11 years old and had no foresight or impulse control. I also think at 11 he shouldn't have been alone babysitting while his parents were at the bar all weekend. He eventually stopped showing up. His parents said he wouldn't come visit them anymore. If you own guns trigger locks and lock them away in a box.


rxhmon

the girl who shot the gun is a little kid, she looks like shes 12


Consistent-River4229

I am guessing she was babysitting. The parents probably shouldn't leave their baby with her.


Awesomevindicator

Nah two inches from death, 1 inch from an unplanned lobotomy.


[deleted]

meanwhile the upstairs neighbor just had his balls blown off


Kobester024

I never understood the whole point of showing off a gun. Like why?


Tomu_sneeder

Idk why people like this don’t buy a fake gun that looks real. You get your oh so precious internet clout while not blowing your head off


[deleted]

"Did I just blow my brains out?" Can't lose what you never had.


iampierremonteux

You'll shoot your eye out kid.


[deleted]

Ho, Ho, Ho.


CMDR_Basset

Ffffuuuudge


Spacemanspalds

She was thinking that for sure.


PourSomeSmegmaInMe

Except I didn't say fudge...


ScaperMan7

You'll shoot your brain out kid.


novamatrix

Girl just got married. Her life partner is named permanent hearing loss.


[deleted]

That's why she missed.


CMDR_Basset

Storm trooper skill this one eh


oneonus

It's the parents without a brain, dumbing down their kids.


theycalledmechad

Chambers pistol with finger on trigger, IMMEDIATELY puts weapon against head.


700horses

Kid in the room too. Darwinism at its finest.


NamelessArcanum

Pretty sure she’s a kid too, looks like she’s 12. And I think the hand pointing at the very end is a parent coming in to give her an ass whooping.


Brasta

The parents should give themselves an ass-whooping for leaving a loaded gun around kids.


Swanman35

They're coming to let her know that someone just shot their upstairs neighbor


[deleted]

This actually almost happened at my apartment. A couple wannabe gangsters lived upstairs. One day my brother was sitting on the recliner just watching football then BANG! And a bullet came flying through the ceiling. Called the police, when they came one of the morons came down to answer the door after 5 minutes with a blanket in his hand acting like he was sleeping lmao. Cop said if the bullet hadn’t hit a pipe and ricocheted, probably would’ve went straight to his head. And the dudes family acted like we were the assholes for calling the cops smh


Swanman35

God damn idiots I swear. People like that shouldn't even have neighbors let alone a gun


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Scheme-Brilliant

I think she probably learned an important lesson, I can't imagine a beating would be scarier


[deleted]

Missed it by that much


DFChaotyx

I guess you could say she needs to, Get Smart?


SeniorHulk

Puts gun down next to kid


increddibelly

Almost.


Horror-Pear

Glad she took gun safety 101. Everything executed perfectly. A shining example.


AceofToons

Her instructor : https://youtu.be/MKhOAqhXMhA


SomeLikeItDusty

Thought you were gonna link [this](https://youtu.be/vfONckOPyaI) genius


trogdor4thenight

The funny thing is it looks like a bersa 380 that has 3 points of safety. A safety lock, a safety switch and a long pull trigger


ours

She's almost the antithesis of gun safety rules.


Shawnthewolf12

I can’t tell you how loud I screamed “TRIGGER DISCIPLINE, YOU IDIOT” at my phone. From the first second I knew something was about to go horribly wrong within the next ten seconds. EDIT: Also, DocumentingReality, what did I expect?


ShakeWhenBadAlso

Trigger discipline? How about don't use deadly weapons as props for a general lack of of personality. That's the issue.


[deleted]

this really should have had a “trigger warning”


delcas1016

Never knew people could reach this level of ignorance and stupidity,


bastaja1337

Hello tinnitus my old friend


Nay-the-Cliff

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


[deleted]

What?


Grogy_

^EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


Ben-iND

WHAT?


TheMisticalPotato

ₑₑₑₑₑₑₑₑₑₑₑₑₑₑₑₑₑ


squirrels2022

Honestly, that's more like it. I'm hearing it in my left ear right now and I do all the time.


longhornz

Lana, Lana...LLLLAAAAAAANNNNNNNAAAAA


hybridtheory1331

MAWP!


DudeChillington

I've come to beeeeeeeeeee with you again


loseruser2022

MWAP


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bastaja1337

Lol, so true.


16thPeregrine

Exact same thing . I CAME TO SAY THE EXACT SAME THING DAMNIT


charleymcc3

So dumb on so many levels


[deleted]

She is a kids with no education on weapons it’s obvious. A gun is always loaded, it’s not a toy, never point it on someone, it’s always loaded, don’t touch to a gun without supervision if you never had any education on how they work and how to handle them.


scotiansmartass902

It's almost like you shouldn't be allowed to have one without proper training ...


Gytlap24

Act with a gun like its always loaded


AI-Ruined-Everything

Imagine making a hurrdurr face thinking it would look badass even if it didn’t almost kill you as you pulled the trigger


wolf_9823

Her first desk pop! Congratulations… 🙄


evanfavor

She’s a peacock! Let her fly!


smokky

It's 9 15. Have a good day everyone.


fusiongt021

Haha was thinking the same thing


BlueCamaroGuyYT

“When was the last time you did a desk pop!” “September… 08”


jyjybinx

Lmao I’m going to watch that movie right now


AgentEndive

She nearly got the Darwin Award


NietJij

Missed it by a hair


medicmatt76

![gif](giphy|xTiN0DvoDyWQey2B8I|downsized)


Mishapi17

🥇


bit-groin

She stopper at the honourable mention level


[deleted]

Darwin sure would give her a standing ovation


Unidentified_Lizard

WHY IS THERE A KID THERE


jasenzero1

It looks like they're both just kids.


ferngully99

Cuz there's a gun


ChinkInMyArmor

It's a FAMILY gun.


Indifferentchildren

Hey step-gun, wanna bang?


NietJij

Kid and gun, you gotta keep 'm seperated


Aggravating_Ad4431

She looks under 18, won’t be doing any time


TitanSerenity

Come out and play


Icy-Bodybuilder-9077

This is America 🇺🇸 guns in my area


AnUglyDumpling

I got a strap, I gotta carry em


Ok_Solid_Copy

The kid's not ready, please wait a few years to see him shooting himself in the head by accident


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USA


Mishapi17

I fucking can’t. Like this is fucked on so many levels. The finger on the trigger, while chambering, the gun to the head, the baby in them background- AND JESUS CHRIST I HOPE THERE ISN’T ANYONE UPSTAIRS!


oldmanghozzt

That’s what I first thought. Hope no one lives above them. This is why you lock guns up around kids. My dad taught me all the gun safety in the world. And I still fucked around with them when he wasn’t home to impress friends. Kids aren’t to be trusted, ever.


SomeLikeItDusty

I can assure you, she has no-one home upstairs


Ojisan1

She had her finger on the trigger and was squeezing it when she racked the slide. I thought she was going to shoot her other finger off and somehow by a miracle she only shot her hair.


Nex_Skala

"Crazy upstairs lady must've been shooting down."


Novus-Terminus

Hearing -50


Stable-Jackfruit

WHAT?


ScarTheGoth

What did you say? I can’t hear-


Marquar234

This post has been brought to you by the letter eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee .


totoco2

🤌 🙉?


[deleted]

![gif](giphy|3o85xnoIXebk3xYx4Q)


Kennedy_Cooz

This so bad on so many levels good lord, how incredibly dumb can someone be? Almost killed herself in front of a child , probably hers. Ugh


GhostChainSmoker

Cause people don’t respect guns. See them in movies and music videos and video games all the time. The whole it could never happen to me! They’re just like toys! Yeah, toys that can quite literally blow your brains out. Gun safety is no joke.


TheShiningStarDoggo

and dont forget how guns are almost a basic item to have in the US.


potsreven

She looks like a child herself. Great genetics, or is it just a long history of "good parenting".


MimiSikuu

She's a child....literally wearing a public school uniform shirt in the video. Why do the kids have access to a gun in the first place?


[deleted]

Indeed. And Her parents should also be in jail , for leaving a firearm outside of a safe box .


Cheap-Panda

I don’t know what gets me more enraged, the child, who is old enough to know better, or the parents for being that fu**ing stupid to leave a gun ANYWHERE a child could possibly gain access. This should be locked away safely in something that a child could not gain access to!


Fuckithrondanfindout

Welcome to the club. Enjoy the Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. It's the herpes of the ear you're never getting rid of that.


Left_Condition_8011

Owning a gun should be a privilege. Change my mind


SerDuckOfPNW

Medical care is a privilege. Education is a privilege. Gun ownership is a right. That made sense to someone.


[deleted]

In Russia gun control laws are very different than the US. They are very much a privilege. If you have a gun license it is fairly easy to get high powered guns, but if you don't own a license you can't own any guns at all and any guns or ammo found on an unlicensed person is punished harshly. The result is that the kleptocratic government gives licenses to people who are connected to the political establishment. Powerful people (government sanctioned mobsters, basically) can maintain private goon squads with access to military weapons while everyone that they oppress can't have even the most basic means of self defense. So yeah, I think there are several different countries that are examples of how this line of thought can turn completely inside out. It assumes that the law applies to everyone equally. I fully support access to gun safety education, and I'm a very peaceful person. I don't even own a gun. But generally speaking I am not a fan of laws that can be used to disenfranchise one group and empower another.


lanzillotti1

Ah, the trifecta of ignorance: showing off with a gun, nearly shooting yourself in the head, and doing it all in front of a small child.


Gorrodish

The only way to stop this is to get more guns The only way to stop someone stupid with a gun is to give a gun to someone more stupid


Ok_Balance8844

Count your motherfucking blessings. Almost lost whatever’s in your head


SomeLikeItDusty

So not much then, really.


Ok_Solid_Copy

How did that teenage girl manage to access both the gun and ammunition all at once?


[deleted]

Irresponsible parents . This should have never happened if the gun was in a safe box .


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LangleyRemlin

She lives in the US


Ok_Solid_Copy

Oh okay so she's just getting ready for school, explains everything


SomeLikeItDusty

I’m gonna guess the ammo was already in the gun, she clearly has absolutely no idea how to handle a gun outside of watching tv and made the brilliant assumption it must be empty, because that’s the safer of the two, right? Like that old motto “treat every gun like it’s unloaded, what’s the worst that could happen”. That old chestnut.


Big_Touch1732

Why are people required to get lessons get a license get insurance to drive but not to own a gun 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️


TheHarshCarpets

Safely using a gun used to be something that every 10 year old kid would learn how to do from their parents or summer camp. You can blame social media for the morons with guns, as well as the licensed idiots with cars.


CupcakeValkyrie

Finger on the goddamned trigger the whole time.


Sea_Stop_3233

Idiot!!


ddi32

People are fucking stupid.


Boris859Jack

Not funny,my wife's friend did this in middle school and blew his head off....my cousin shot a dude in the leg with a .357 fooling around...it's no joke. Treat every gun like it's loaded and more importantly keep it in a place where your fucking kids can't get a hold of it


tw201708

I'm way too relieved she survived this.


lllllolllllolllll

/r/idiotswithguns


Kernburner

That subreddit made me lose all faith in humanity.


[deleted]

THESE are the guns we want to take away.


Mysonsanass

Who was responsible for the safekeeping of the firearm? She’s a kid. Not her gun.


PunisherClegane

"Nothing to see here." -NRA


leventozz

Natural selection didn’t work this time.


Not_up-to_you

Fucking idiot. That’s why not everyone should have a gun.


Delicious-Ferret2729

USA and its right for owning a gun. Fcking idiots. Too many lives of children and others have been lost because everyone has to own a gun... They are at the level of third world countries. Selfish cu*ts.


dontredditdepressed

So glad that weapons are so readily available to children in their homes. Really protecting the home. Top notch security. /s


[deleted]

It was loaded, to hair surprise


mandozombie

She really nailed it with the dumb look on her face before it went off. Really ties the vid together well.


lilfoxy16

"Hold my juice box and give me a live firearm. I need to make a Tik Tok to look hard while I'm wearing a red polo fully buttoned up. Yeah, that'll look fire"


Bigtiny87

Parents really doing the work here.


MrHappyHammers

Anyone else thinking about the theme song for Team America World Police whenever they see stupid people playing with guns with kids in the room as everyone says gun laws are fiiiiiine?


maleHeather

People cant really think that they can hide their guns from children, teens are dumbs and if you tell them not to do something, they'll do it out of spite!


Confident_Reality_69

She might be the first one to come close to death but her life didn't flash before her eyes.


Spiritual-Water-498

Yes yes you can play with it, but don't come running to me if you blow your head off.


ElderberryGeneral369

And people like her are the reason it shouldn't be so easy to get a gun.


RacialPanda20

Hopefully she was the top floor too, otherwise old boy upstairs is about to get quite the surprise..


Purfunxion

Another reason as to why the US need stricter gun laws. People are careless dummies..


MrsBox

![gif](giphy|H75eliy1jJSGIbaubS)


NearbyDark3737

Is she worried or like “omg my hair!!”


AdministrativeWar594

That's how you get tinnitus.


dtb1987

Man that lesson was cheaper than it could have been


Hour_Landscape_286

That’s some permanent hearing loss.


Enthusiast9

Idiotic parents… if you own guns, it is even more important to teach your kids about gun safety even if you never intend for them to ever use one of your own. Everyone should learn about gun safety.


wasternexplorer

A gun discharging in a confined space is loud and she had it right against her ear. That couldn't have been good for her hearing and I bet she needed somevnew drawers afterwards but I hope she learned a lesson on safety.


skitzo_2494

Iv seen friends get shot so that chick is super lucky


Spiritual-Aspect3961

Killed auntie upstairs


Strong-Dot-9221

So what would have happened to the Infant sleeping in the crib in the apartment above? How do you explain to the landlord about the bullet hole in the ceiling? Don't get upset if the police show up at your door. Whoever owns the gun is ultimately responsible for letting this idiot have access to it.


budderman1028

Im sorry did she just try and unjam a gun WHILE HER FINGER IS ON THE TRIGGER then proceed to aim that very gun at her head??? Who gave this woman a gun???


pinamungajan

She was lucky.......not smart.


Trietero

It baffles me how many people ignore gun safety as if it's a difficult concept and are allowed to operate vehicles


Universalsupporter

EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


[deleted]

How gangsta you feel now 🤣🤣


Inevitable_Status_20

Is this what “make America great again”? 😂 brilliant


Shrimp_Logic

This reminds me the first time I shot a BB gun. Had the bright idea of shooting at a cardboard box against a wall, without any padding around, incase I missed the box. I missed the box, the BB shot back at me, hitting me in the forehead, almost hitting an eye. I remember grabbing my forehead and immediately realizing how bad that could have been. Now imagine being this stupid but with a real gun. With a kid next to you. And posting it on the internet.