More from the “You Can’t Make This Shit Up” Department.
Today in things you may feel you were better off not knowing, there are multiple Facebook groups in which men take pictures of themselves with loaded guns pointed towards their dicks. And, in news that should not shock you at all, one of those men has blown off his testicles and is now being hailed as a king by the members of one of these groups.
On August 11, the man, a member of the “Loaded Guns Pointed at [B]enis” group, started posting a live video of himself pointing a gun at his dick and balls, for reasons, when the gun “accidentally” went off, in what’s more accurately called a “negligent discharge” — and how. The video was swiftly deleted, and the man subsequently posted the picture above, showing blood spattered everywhere and the caption “[B]ois, I think I fucked up.” You will note the copy of the Constitution in the upper left corner, reminding us all that it is a man’s Second Amendment right to shoot his balls off if he so chooses.
It was not a mere graze. The man later went to the hospital and discovered that it had actually gone through, which seems … uncomfortable. But apparently he is doing okay for a guy who just shot himself in the balls. He has since been made an administrator of the group, and members have been photoshopping memes of him as a king, accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, etc. etc.
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‘Appendix-in-waistband-carry’ is a perfectly useful way to carry a concealed firearm. This blog post from a holster manufacturer goes into the benefits and drawbacks of that carry method. Basically, it’s easier to move around and it’s easier to ‘present’ the pistol, versus other concealed carry methods. I don’t use it, but I understand why people do.
It does have some potentially dangerous aspects to it, as the example of the shot-up idiot should make obvious. The muzzle is pointing near very valuable, highly vascularized parts of the human anatomy. In a proper holster, this won’t be a problem: the trigger will be protected from inadvertent manipulation, and modern pistols do not discharge unless the trigger is manipulated. Unfortunately, many idiots forgo using a holster—Plaxico Burress being one of the more notable—and still more people fail to treat holstering and unholstering with the care and concern the actions require.
Wonkette can write what it wants, and find the silly people it needs to prove its point; the firearms owners and users I know, find nothing sympathetic about a negligent discharge or the people it happens to. It’s not heroic at all. They’re frequently objects of laughter and derision: “I’m the only one in this room professional enough, that I know of, to carry this glock 40”, “I just shot myself!”. And they’re always used as learning experiences.
You realize that Wonkette thinks this dude is a bozo, right? Wonkette is NOT saying he is heroic.
I agree (and I’m pretty sure Wonkette agrees, although I can’t speak for them, obviously) that accidentally shooting oneself or wounding oneself through (as you put it) “negligent discharge” is a bad thing and not to be ridiculed.
But guys who intentionally point (in this case, loaded) guns at their genitals do not merit sympathy or defense. That’s not accidental. It’s just stupid.
And of course there is a “Gun People Who Hate Gun People” group.
Which (when done correctly) does not involve actually pointing the muzzle at your Most Valuable Player with the finger on the trigger. Different league of behavior entirely.
Completely agree. Though pointing at the femoral isn’t much better. Still, with no fingers near triggers, it shouldn’t be a problem, and it isn’t for thousands of gun owners.
The aliengear blog post is surprisingly good. Lot of shilling, but that’s to be expected.
ThelmaLou, Wonkette’s grabbing quotes from people who I wouldn’t call representative of gun owners at all, in an effort to make gun owners look dumb. It’s dishonest—though typical of that rag when they stray away from anything involving coastal elites having sex with each other—and I was merely trying to provide another view that’s, IMHO, more representative. So it goes.
Nobody’s saying that idiots who like to aim their guns at their genitals are representive of gun owners as a whole. But I think that the fact that there even exists a community of people who do this highlights some serious problems with human nature.