Gun deaths, now leading cause of deaths among idiots! LOL!

Yep... that's not going to stop it. Idiots become art of Darwin after stupid stunt goes hilariously wrong.

Sad face.


Happy Face.

 

But the article doesn't say if the bullet went through the book, or she missed the book completely. Regardless, .50 cal isn't something to mess with, unless you have a really fucking thick book. Oh, and a woman with good aim too.
Or they could just watch Myth Busters reruns to get a feel for what they are dealing with.
Maybe some of our more inquisitive word forge members could recreate this experiment to see exactly how, when and why things went south. I'm willing to submit a list of members I would encourage!

 

Well, where's the video?!?

It oughta be good for a few million views!







Seriously, though...

 

Regarding the OP ed, given you're still around doesn't that refute your claim?

 

19 years old and with a three year old daughter and pregnant again? That means she had the kid at 16 and got pregnant at 15 when her boyfriend was 18.

This is why so many hispanics remain multigenerationally poor.

 

OK. I am not a gun person.
I was not aware that a .50 caliber pistol even existed.

I am familiar with the .50 cal machine gun.

How did a young couple, who obviously no nothing about guns,
get a hold of such a weapon?

 

Her name is Perez - she must be a slow starter - she should have pumped out an ICE van full of kids by now!

 

The same way people who don't drink much buy a bottle of whiskey and slam it down and die of alcohol poisoning. We have the right to be stupid, and they exercised their rights.

 

There have been quite a few .50 caliber handgun cartridges over the years (.50 Action Express, .500 S&W Magnum, .500 JRH, .500 Wyoming Express, .500 Linebaugh, .50 GI); none are anywhere near as powerful as the .50 Browning that machine guns use. The only thing the former have in common with the latter is the diameter of the bullet.

I imagine this was either a .50 Action Express (from a Desert Eagle pistol) or a .500 S&W Magnum (from a revolver). Those are the most common .50s.

I would say that it's a dumb idea to monkey around with a .50 handgun, but the truth is that it's dumb to monkey around with any caliber. President Reagan was nearly killed by a ricochet of a lowly .22 LR.

 

Maybe basic gun safety in schools would prevent this kind of thing! Just thinking out loud. Or maybe basic physics, anatomy, math - pretty much any tangible science would have helped avoid this.

 

"such a weapon"?!?!?

It's a handgun. Not a howitzer.

 

Coming from the "man" who has this? It's impressive you haven't offed yourself in a simple household accident. Oh wait, you almost drowned in a bathtub, didn't you?

 

No. Not enough water for that. I was worried when I fell that the back of my head was going to hit the rear edge of the tub and break my neck.

Fortunately for everyone I managed to jerk my head forward enough to avoid direct impact.

But you raise a worthwhile point. IIRC household accidents kill more Americans each year than firearms.

One of the number one accidents?

Drowning.

 

Guess you don't care about grabbing gunz when it's one less beaner in the world, eh, Adolf?

 

Speaking of bath tub accidents, they say 90 percent of the accidents of all types occur within five miles of your home. Fuck that, I'm moving!

 

That's like when they say more people die in bed than anywhere else.

Of course they do. That's the one single place they spend more time than anywhere else.

 

I would say this "experiment" should have involved buster, but ecen poor buster doesn't deserve such treatment.

 

maybe, but if you spend the largest chunk of your 24 allotted hours per day we all theoretically have, you are either 800 pounds or a hooker - hopefully one or the other, not both.

 

No. But everyone spends more time in bed than they do any other single place. Say seven hours a day in bed. You don't spend anywhere near that eating, driving (most people don't anyway) or on the toilet, in the bathtub,

7 hours in each 24 hour day makes 49 hours in bed per week. Most people don't spend that much total time at work per week.

 

oh I see - yes I guess no single location takes as big a percentage of your time as does the bedroom.

 

Just read this story in the Beeb - having fired the same kind of gun, I'm at a genuine loss at how stupid you'd need to be to think a fucking book would stop it!

The very definition of weapons grade stupidity!

 

It's stupid to fire a real bullet at anyone except in self defense anyway. But there have been many examples of books (or sometimes just rolled up papers) stopping a bullet or absorbing enough energy that it won't penetrate much.

Remember his rolled up speech in his pocket is what saved Teddy Roosevelt from death.

 

You can't prevent stupid.

I can't wrap my head around someone who's motivation in life is how many views they get on YouTube.

 

It is astounding but they were just stupid kids. On the upside some people really do make six figure salaries on youtube and twitch simply playing video games and streaming it on the web.

 

F=MV is the order of the day. Smaller calibre rounds can be stopped more easily, physics says a .50 isn't going to be unduly concerned about dead trees in its way.

 

Yep, .50 AE Desert Eagle. Gold-plated, no less.

He probably had a second or two to contemplate just how bad an idea that was before the darkness enveloped him.

 

I don't know why she's under arrest - the act was consensual!

 

I know you're being facetious here, but ... I can't help thinking you are partly correct. I mean, forget about the sheer stupidity of the situation, but, she did not act malevolently, or even negligently. How many times was the subject of bullet proof vests killed? And, yes, I know there were extensive test done prior to testing on a human. But ... the guy agreed to let her shoot him. What are they charging her with? Second or third degree manslaughter at most?

But, ultimately, her true crime here is just being stupid.

 

Considering they wanted to post the video on YouTube, a simple search on YouTube would have been somewhat beneficial.

 

Fucking milenials/young people for you. The have all these apps on their phones and shit but they don't have the common sense to just google shit. They have GPS but can't read or draw a simple fucking map or understand north from south. Fucking amazing really!