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Gun Safety Demo Ends in Accidental Suicide

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted May 18, 2009 12:13 PM CDT

(Newser) – A Phoenix gun-safety advocate accidentally shot himself in the head yesterday while demonstrating gun safety, the Arizona Daily Star reports. The man was explaining to two others the necessity of keeping guns unloaded in the house. To demonstrate, he placed his own gun—which he thought was unloaded—to his head and pulled the trigger. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

A Phoenix gun-safety advocate accidentally shot himself in the head yesterday while demonstrating gun safety.
A Phoenix gun-safety advocate accidentally shot himself in the head yesterday while demonstrating gun safety.   (Shutterstock)
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stevsie
Mar 10, 2010 9:28 AM CST
wow.. i guess that's the ultimate safety course..no one who saw that will EVER do that I'm sure..
TiredMemeCat
May 19, 2009 12:19 PM CDT
"Any questions?"
Nwambe
May 19, 2009 11:26 AM CDT
In fairness, in the early days of your country, hospitals and census statistics were few and far between, so gun deaths or injuries, legitimate or not, were not exactly reported. The 'frontier' mystique that guns seem to have in America cannot be underestimated, but it's reasonably clear that when even a gun safety expert can accidentally kill himself that these weapons require regulation, somewhere along the same lines as tobacco manufacturers received in the latter half of the 20th century.

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