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[Pinko Marx]

Sounds like this was one hell of a shotgun wedding. AMIRITE

 

[Hari Seldon]

This is a murder:

1. It is in Sicily
2. It is only a .22, you would need a perfect head shot to kill someone.
3. You don't hunt wild boar with a .22.

 

[Dali]

Sounds like this was one hell of a shotgun wedding. AMIRITE

The first three times didn't really do it for me. But this!? This!

:lol :lol

 

[DonMigs85]

Ironic that it was the photographer's own suggestion that did him in.
As for why it was loaded, perhaps they had just gone hunting boar recently?

 

[GaimeGuy]

His last words were "These are great shots"

 

[taylor910]

Wow, I really thought this would be a USA back country story. I feel really bad for the deceased.

smh

 

[Mad Max]

Say what you will about America and its guns, but it seems like accidents like this and the guy that vegetablized himself in Russia are limited to kids and crazies over here.

Treat every gun as though it's loaded and don't point it at anything unless you intend to shoot it is instilled into backwoods people that grow up with hunting rifles.

An accident like this happened in America not long ago. (someone shot himself/his wife while cleaning a gun)

 

[Dali]

An accident like this happened in America not long ago. (someone shot himself/his wife while cleaning a gun)

Not the same thing. He was trying to unload the gun and it went off. These people and the Russian guy weren't even attempting to use basic gun safety.

 

[Lucky Forward]

From the Daily Mail version of the story:

Palermo police spokesman Colonel Teo Luzi said: 'From what we have been able to establish the photographer had asked the parents of the bride and groom if they had any guns to use as props in a picture and one went off hitting him in the head killing him.

'He was only there as a favour for the wedding photographer who had been originally been booked but had to pull out as he was ill.

 

[Mad Max]

Not the same thing. He was trying to unload the gun and it went off. These people and the Russian guy weren't even attempting to use basic gun safety.

I'm not 100% sure we're talking about the same story, but unloading a gun while pointing it at someone doesn't sound like basic gun safety either.

 

[Kinitari]

From the Daily Mail version of the story:

Sounds like that first photographer really dodged a bullet.

Spoiler

How do you people do this without hating yourselves?

 

[kaching]

Rule 1 of guns

Don't point it at something you don't want dead...

So, what, I'm supposed to want the ground to die?!?

 

[Liferebooted]

Sounds like that first photographer really dodged a bullet.

Spoiler

How do you people do this without hating yourselves?

Spoiler

Internet kiddies.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Sounds like that first photographer really dodged a bullet.

Spoiler

How do you people do this without hating yourselves?

Spoiler

Who said I don't hate myself?

 

[Dali]

I'm not 100% sure we're talking about the same thing, but unloading a gun while pointing it at someone doesn't sound like basic gun safety either.

Trying to unload a gun while someone who isn't in your field of view comes into the line of fire is different from putting a gun to your temple and pulling the trigger or deliberately pointing a gun at someone's head for a picture. Yeah, he should have made sure the area was clear, but that's not the same level of stupid or carelessness. We may very well be talking about different incidents though.

 

[BobLoblaw]

I thought this was a story about a wedding in Mississippi or Alabama or something.

 

[UnluckyKate]

 

[Iceman]

Spoiler

How do you people do this without hating yourselves?

It's a slippery slope Kinitari. You don't want to turn into a Count Dookake.. tucked into a fetal ball in a soiled corner of a dark basement, shaking, ceaselessly self-flagellating with a cat-o-nine-tails made out of paper clips, mumbling puns to himself about increasingly bizarre accidental deaths while watching CSI Miami marathons.

Nothing but love, Count.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Terrible trigger discipline. Don't put your finger on the trigger of a gun unless you intend to shoot. Terrible gun safety. Don't turn the safety off on a gun unless you intend to shoot. Terrible gun storage. Don't load a gun unless you intend to shoot.

This is such a ridiculous tragedy

 

[J-Rzez]

I don't think this was the shot... he was looking for. /sunglasses

 

[J-Rzez]

Terrible trigger discipline. Don't put your finger on the trigger of a gun unless you intend to shoot. Terrible gun safety. Don't turn the safety off on a gun unless you intend to shoot. Terrible gun storage. Don't load a gun unless you intend to shoot.

This is such a ridiculous tragedy

First of all, the guns should have been cleared before being handed over. Then we can get into trigger safety, which you're right about.

 

[NomarTyme]

Why was the gun even loaded? :/

 

[Aaron Strife]

This is why they should ban weddings.

Only straight ones.

 

[Dali]

Why was the gun even loaded? :/

realism verisimilitude

 

[xbhaskarx]

the photographer suggested that using some guns as props would make for a memorable wedding album.

Great idea.

 

[Winterblink]

Great idea.

Yep, mission accomplished.

 

[Brinbe]

Awful story all-around... location surprised me though. Learned something new today, "stop snitching" abounds worldwide.

 

[captive]

Rule 1 of guns

Don't point it at something you don't want dead...

no thats rule 2 of guns.
Rule number one is always assume a gun is loaded.

 

[gutter_trash]

when the photographer suggested that using some guns as props would make for a memorable wedding album.

it's the photographer's fault, not the couple... he came up with the idea, it was his responsibility to check the ''props''

allot of people will go an blame to family, but don't. It wasn't their idea... blame the photog

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

When is America going to deal with its gun problem?

WTF?

 

[Treo360]

it's the photographer's fault, not the couple... he came up with the idea, it was his responsibility to check the ''props''

allot of people will go an blame to family, but don't. It wasn't their idea... blame the photog

Quote the whole sentence

They allegedly fetched the rifle when the photographer suggested that using some guns as props would make for a memorable wedding album.

So it's their word against a dead man. Even if it was the Camera man who suggested it, the people holding firearms bare the blame and fault too.

 

[Branduil]

WTF?

Check your sarcasm meter.

 

[Eggo]

If the photographer had a gun none of this would have happened.

I like this answer.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

Check your sarcasm meter.

Hard to tell considering the amount of hate America gets by non-American Gaffers.

 

[Always-honest]

Italians have great names.

Alotta Fagina

 

[Beezy]

I don't think this was the shot... he was looking for. /sunglasses

*applauds*

 

[Mudkips]

You would think checking the firearms for being loaded would've been the first thing to do.

No, the first rule of guns is ONLY POINT AT WHAT YOU WANT TO SHOOT.
This applies equally whether or not the gun is loaded, has a safety, etc.

no thats rule 2 of guns.
Rule number one is always assume a gun is loaded.

Wrong.
Rule one is ONLY POINT AT WHAT YOU WANT TO SHOOT.

Always treating a weapon as hot is rule 2, which is really a way of saying "NO, DIPSHIT. Don't point that at me after removing the magazine, because you still left one in the fucking chamber!".

 

[jmdajr]

god damn

fucking idiots

 

[Lucky Forward]

Awful story all-around... location surprised me though. Learned something new today, "stop snitching" abounds worldwide.

Are you kidding? The Sicilians invented the code of silence.

 

[Equus Bellator Apex]

Thug Wife.

 

[Cosmic Dreams]

I'd go with "I want this next shot to be memorable."

I spat my water out.


Thanks.

 

[speculawyer]

Wow, I really thought this would be a USA back country story. I feel really bad for the deceased.

Would you not feel bad for them if they were American? :lol