I enjoy a good bourbon. I also enjoy firearms.
What I don’t do is mix the two.
Alcohol is a CNS depressant, which means it has an impact on your brain, including the part of it that makes good decisions. It’s why you text “wyd” to your ex at three in the morning or suddenly decide that the girl at the bar who was a 2 at 10:00 is now a 10 at 2:00.
You don’t make smart decisions, and when you’re carrying or handling a gun, you need to be capable of making smart decisions. There are a lot of things that go well with alcohol, but gunpowder isn’t one of them.
It’s one thing to break this rule if you’ve been drinking, and someone breaks into your home when you’re trying to sleep it off or when they’re trying to kill you or someone else. It’s not great to do so, and you’d better make damn sure you’re right about the threat, but it’s better than being dead.
What’s not acceptable is what a South Carolina man is accused of doing.
A man was arrested after one person died after being shot on Sunday, according to the Florence County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO).
At around 12:30 a.m., deputies received a call about a gunshot victim at an area hospital. The incident occured at 297 South Stadium Road near the Florence Regional Airport.
It was discovered that 21-year-old Justin Cornelius Gregg, of Darlington, negligently handled a gun after consuming alcohol, causing the gun to discharge, striking the victim, FCSO said.
Gregg has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and handling a firearm while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Moreover, he’s a prime illustration of how not to be a gun owner.
Basically, it sounds like this guy was sitting there, drunk, and playing with his gun. Because of the CNS depressant slowed down brain activity, he may have failed to make sure the gun was unloaded. He may not have been paying attention to where it was pointed. Literally any of the rules of gun safety might have been broken simply because his brain didn’t realize he was breaking them.
You usually need to break more than one of the rules for something like this to happen, but when you’re handling a firearm while intoxicated, you really shouldn’t trust that you’re doing everything right. Just leave the gun stored.
Unfortunately, when you drink, your poor decisions also often include the “I’m good to go” feature, that includes a belief that you’re safe to drive, safe to handle guns, and safe to call your psychotic ex and try to arrange a booty call.
Only one of those has an almost acceptably low risk of fatality. I’ll let you figure out which one that is, though I hope it’s not difficult. If it is, please consider taking up basket weaving as a hobby instead of shooting, please.
I know I’m joking here, but I really shouldn’t be. A man is dead at the hands of his friend, all because that friend did something that should have been obvious to everyone was a bad idea. Maybe other people begged Gregg to put the gun down, and he didn’t listen. Maybe they thought it was funny. Maybe they didn’t think about anything at all.
We don’t know.
What we do know is that a man’s life ended, and another is likely to be destroyed over this massive lapse in judgment.
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