[Hook]

Booze and bullets a deadly mix for man playing with handgun

A young man playing with a gun accidentally shot himself to death Friday, Pierce County sheriff’s deputies reported.
Gordon Alverton, 21, had been out drinking with two buddies when they returned to his Graham-area home about 1 a.m., sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said.

Alverton grabbed one of two handguns in the house in the 21400 block of 89th Avenue Court East and began horsing around with it, Troyer said. At one point, he put the barrel of the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger, Troyer said, but there was no cartridge in the chamber and the gun didn’t fire.

“At that point, his friends told him to knock it off,” Troyer said.

But Alverton put the barrel of the gun into his mouth a second time and pulled the trigger again. This time it fired, killing him, Troyer said.

“The thinking is he probably thought the gun was unloaded,” Troyer said. “It’s just a case of alcohol and guns being a bad mixture.”

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/4822015p-4433198c.html




Hook

[Popeye]

Let's hope he didn't breed.

[7.62mmFMJ]

Yep, that is chlorine in the gene pool :D

[wildames]

Break one of the Biblical "10 Commandments" and perhaps God will forgive....break one of the "firearms 10 Commandments" and it rarely forgives. The graveyards are full of foolish, unlucky young men.

[Sam]

That's the problem with safety laws, can't get them killed off before they are old enough to breed. Evolution in action.

Sam

[NavyChief]

Unfortunately, this will find its way into the "accidental-death-of-a-youth-that-would've-been-preventable-with-sensible-gun-laws" table of statisitics without any background information...

[Old Soldier]

Yep. The anti's will jump all over it. :down:



:psycho: :psycho:

[Blammer]

Is the only Capitol Crime in Nature :mad: :up:
Adios DUMMY! :down:

[Mike Weber]

Unfortunately, this will find its way into the "accidental-death-of-a-youth-that-would've-been-preventable-with-sensible-gun-laws" table of statisitics without any background information...

Exactly! Every time one of these idiot with a gun scenarios happens, the anti gun media is always quick to paint all gun owners with the same brush while demanding more gun control legislation.

[dipodomys]

Stupidity is neither criminal or preventable. If he'd taken thirty other people with him in a car wreck the story wouldn't have gotten out of state.