How Not to Be A Gun Owner: Mess With Gun Drunk, High, and Kill Your Own Son

I see a lot of news that makes me angry. A lot of times, it’s people blaming gun owners for various things that legal gun ownership had nothing to do with. However, that’s not all that infuriates me.

What really gets me is when I come across a story of someone doing something so completely idiotic with a gun that even a mentally disabled fungus should be able to discern is a bad idea, and someone gets hurt or killed because of it.

And not just people screwing around with guns, which is up there, too. Some people make those who play around with guns look like Einstein in comparison.

People like this Florida jackwagon.

A Florida man was accused of messing around with a gun while drunk and shooting his 13-year-old son, killing him.

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CCSO said Gregory Anthony Zecca, 39, “consumed alcohol over several hours at a local establishment, purchased additional alcohol, and later used both alcohol and marijuana at a friend’s residence.”

Zecca and his 13-year-old son were watching a UFC fight on TV when he began “practicing drawing (the gun) from his waistband and dry-firing.” The chamber was cleared and the magazine was removed.

The magazine was later reinserted and a round was chambered, according to CCSO, and Zecca fired a single shot, striking the child and killing him.

So this dipstick was drunk, high, and “practicing” his draw from a waistband–no mention of a holster, mind you–and then reloaded the gun and killed his son.

There’s nothing about this that is remotely intelligent.

What gets me most is that the act of drawing and dry-firing is a perfectly valid training technique. It suggests this guy might actually have taken some time to educate himself somewhere along the way, even if it was just reading a few blog posts.

How did he manage to do that, yet manage to miss how everything else that took place was as boneheaded, ignorant-level stupid as a human being can get without losing the brainpower necessary to remember to breathe?

HOW?

A 13-year-old boy is dead because his drunk, high father decided it was a fine time to screw around with his gun.

Look, even people who aren’t really into guns should be able to figure out that when you’re under the influence of any kind of substance, it’s probably not a good idea to mess with your firearms. It’s different if you’ve been drinking and someone breaks into your home, mind you. You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do to keep your family safe. I sure couldn’t live with myself if my family were murdered because I refused to defend them simply because I’d had a bit too much to drink that night.

Beyond that, though? I don’t touch guns and alcohol at anything close to the same time, unless it’s disarming myself just before fixing a drink. Why? Because guns and alcohol are a bad mix, and it’s not difficult to figure out why.

But Zecca was too stupid to figure it out himself, and now he has to deal not just with the legal ramifications of his stupidity, but the loss of his son at his own hands.

When I talk about being a responsible gun owner, I mean pretty much the opposite of this crap.

I’ve often said that stupid should hurt, but this case illustrates that even when it does, it doesn’t necessarily start or stop at hurting the stupid person in question.

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