Nashville man dies in likely accidental shooting

[jilly]

http://www.wsmv.com/story/17287679/nashville-man-dies-in-likely-accidental-shooting

...cleaning his rifle / accidental discharge.

[LI0NSFAN]

I just don't understand. I NEVER point the gun at ANY part of my body even while cleaning. I even use a bore camera to look down it. I just don't understand how this keeps happening.

[Guest Torrin]

Man, this is just crazy. I safety check my weapon like 3 times and make sure there is no ammo anywhere near me when I clean it. I also never point the thing at myself unless it is completely dismantled, and then very seldom. Someone is not being very careful!

[BryanP]

In many cases "accidentally shot himself while cleaning it" is code for suicide.

[QuietDan]

Sorry to be cold; this is a self-correcting problem.

Correct your procedures or your procedures will correct you.

Thankfully, there was no collateral damage, wife, children, neighbors.

[Mike.357]

Gun cleaning accident can save the family added grief of it being a suicide.

I always think suicide in these instances.

Sad that someone thinks it their only option.

[QuietDan]

Gun cleaning accident can save the family added grief of it being a suicide.

I always think suicide in these instances.

Sad that someone thinks it their only option.

You may be right. Sounds like you've come to this thought from long or repeated exposure.

I know of a semi-public figure who died "from a fall" (out of a window and down several stories).

[Mike.357]

A knox deputy told me once that if they respond to something like this and there is anything resembling gun cleaning supplies around they call it accidental.

[Fourtyfive]

Sad.

[LagerHead]

In many cases "accidentally shot himself while cleaning it" is code for suicide.

Sad but true. One of my high school friends died "while cleaning his pistol." He was a cool guy too. Sorry it had to end that way.

[Guest Red5]

A knox deputy told me once that if they respond to something like this and there is anything resembling gun cleaning supplies around they call it accidental.

When I was 7, our neighbor's son committed suicide. I didn't know any better at the time but I distinctly remember one of the deputies telling my dad that he was "dialing in the sights on his rifle".

[Volzfan]

Sad situation.

[Guest drwright6]

Depending on the persons life insurance policy, an accidental death may pay a double indemnity and suicide may not be covered at all. Good reason to make it look like an accident I suppose.