Do selfies with guns ever work out? A very stupid person killed another very stupid person when they decided they wanted to capture a “Bonnie & Clyde” picture of themselves. With one of them dead, they at least got half-way to being Bonnie & Clyde, but I doubt that was the intended purpose. Of course the gun “just went off” like they always do when idiots handle them.
KXAN reports that 20-year-old Autumn King and 26-year-old Eric Allen are (were) live-in boyfriend and girlfriend who have two kids together. To save their troubled relationship, they decided to take a romantic photo together in their Austin, TX home, but things didn’t turn out as they hoped.
King told officers, “she had the rifle pointed towards Eric and that the assault rifle ‘went off,'” officials wrote in an affidavit filed in court. “Autumn said that Eric dropped to the ground, but Autumn thought that Eric was ‘playing,’ and she told him to get up.”
Assault rifle? The gun was identified as a .22 caliber Mossberg. Are the liberals now going to try to claim that rim-fire plinkers are weapons of war designed for the battlefield? Probably.
As for the gun just going off, that’s not entirely true:
“She said, ‘I didn’t even pull it (the trigger), I just barely touched it,'” officials said King told them as part of her statement. She later told investigators, “she was trying to be like Bonnie and Clyde.”
She apparently touched the trigger enough to get the firearm to discharge, so yeah, that’s pulling the trigger.
If this seems dumb, and it does, it manages to get ever stupider:
King told investigators the gun belonged to Allen and he told her his guns were always unloaded. She also told police she didn’t always believe Allen when he told her that.
So she was pretty sure the gun was loaded, held it up to her boyfriend’s head, and pulled the trigger? And she was shocked that it just went off? Wow. Also, the boyfriend absolutely set the table for his own funeral so there’s blame to go around for everyone.
King stated that she thought her boyfriend was just playing after she plugged him in the head, which it fairly consistent with what a whopping moron she is. Eventually she saw blood coming out of him and it suddenly dawned on her that he’d been shot. What she did next kept that idiocy going:
When she realized Allen was bleeding, King told police she first tried to drag him to the car and when she couldn’t, she ran outside to call for help and called 911.
What? Was she trying to hide the body? As it turns out, she didn’t have to go outside to call 911 because there was a phone right next to where she shot him and it had some evidence that maybe this shooting wasn’t as accidental as King would have the police believe.
A phone found at the scene contained video of Allen and King arguing 16 minutes before the 911 call was made. “Based on what the video shows the argument between the two is about them both cheating on each other and justification for doing so,” detectives wrote in the affidavit.
Despite the fact that King probably shot Allen because he was a cheating dog, she was only charged with manslaughter.
Oh, and did I mention that this shooting took place in front of the couple’s two young children? Also what’s up with that mugshot? Did they arrest King while she was performing surgery and she didn’t have time to take off the mask?
The 4 rules of gun safety are:
1. Treat every firearm as if it were loaded.
2. Never point the gun at anything you aren’t willing to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire.
4. Make sure of your target and what is beyond it.
Autumn King managed a 100% fail rate on this test, which is a pretty amazing feat considering you get 100 points on the SAT just for spelling your name correctly. Then again, what are the chances this idiot can spell her name correctly?
