"I experienced a negligent discharge," bravely admitted Derek "Tex" Gruber in his own YouTube video. "The reason that I share this," he continued, "is because negligent discharges happen, and I don't want them to happen to anybody else.... I have done that...stroke thousands of times with no problem."
Now before you think, "Take it easy, it's not such a big deal, Tex. That happens to lots of guys," you must understand he means he accidentally shot himself in the leg. He "f--cking shot" himself, to be more precise. (His words).
Now, I'm certainly not sayin' morons like Tex, Arizona state senator Lori Klein, or Homer Simpson should compel us to repeal or severely restrict the 2nd Amendment -- 12,000 needless gun murders a year should compel us to do that -- I'm just sayin' that talking about "safe" handling of firearms is a lot like Steve Irwin talking about safe interaction with stingrays.
"Things just tend to happen," summed up Tex, who ends his, er, educational video with pleas to "join the NRA and protect our rights."
That's right, Tex, morons do happen. And while the Constitution does not give us the right to be morons, thankfully it does give us the right to keep and bear arms. Woo-hoo, God bless Amurica!
Seriously though, watching him demonstrate after the fact how it happened, I couldn't help but fear he would somehow manage to shoot himself again.
Commenting on another version of Tex's embarrassing discharge, @squanto2 perfectly illustrated the absurdity of the "more guns keep us safer" argument: "Maybe if the left hand had a gun to protect him from his right hand that would not happen." Indeed. It's too bad there wasn't another armed citizen nearby to shoot Tex before he could shoot himself.
UPDATE (07.14.2011): One gentle reader was kind enough to pass along even more, and more outrageous negligent discharge videos. Honestly, I didn't realize the situation was this bad. Jesus....
But this one's not funny at all, just sad:
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