Gun Safety 101 - Do Not Use Handgun for A Backscratcher

By Duane Lester • May 13th, 2008

This is why guns and alcohol don’t mix. When you are drinking and playing poker at 3 AM and your back starts itching, do this, not this:

A Fort Worth man trying to scratch an itch on his back used a revolver and accidentally shot himself.

Jorge Espinal, 44, was drinking beer and playing poker around 3 a.m. Sunday in his home in the 3500 block of Montague Street, when he got up from the table and walked into another room, said Fort Worth police Lt. Kenneth Dean.

“He told officers he had an itch on his back and grabbed the first thing he could get a hold of, which was a revolver,” Lt. Dean said. “The gun went off.”

Uh, yeah. I’m sure I’m not the only one who sees a Darwin Award in this guy’s future.

Hat Tip: The Bitch Girls

Duane Lester A one-man political wrecking machine, Duane was not always such a strong conservative. He did not always see things from through the filters of a right wing/libertarian belief system. Now he does. Duane grew up in the midwest, the son of two staunch Democrats. He served in the military overseas and has since moved back to the Midwest after touring around the world. He has a wife and four children. He has a big head. I’m tired of writing in the third person. God bless America.
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