Phoenix man killed in gun-safety demo
A 26-year-old Phoenix man accidentally killed himself early Sunday while explaining gun safety to two Sierra Vista residents.
Samuel Benally Jr. was at an apartment on West Tacoma Street when he said guns should be kept unloaded because people could point them at their heads, said Sierra Vista police Sgt. Brett Mitchell.
Benally then demonstrated by putting his own 9mm Ruger, which he believed to be unloaded, to his head and firing it, Mitchell said.
Benally was flown to University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Mitchell said.
An investigation is ongoing, but police do not believe alcohol or drugs were involved, Mitchell said.
I thought you were supposed to assume every gun is loaded, and therefore not do things like point a gun at your head and pull the trigger.
A friend of mine's dad once gave a lecture on gun safety to his family. He said (to the effect), "Now I know this gun isn't loaded" and then proceeded to shoot a hole through the living room window.
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Wow, so not true of my sister-in-law's father, who is father to 8 daughters. ah well.
sara! One of my bike teammate's lives in your neighborhood! And another teammate, her girlfriend, will be moving in with her soon. They are totally awesome people. I'll have to introduce you!
Even if the gun is loaded that can be a fatal move--see Hexum, Jon Erik.
Idjit.
Looks like The Unit has been cancelled. Weird last season. I wonder if that had anything to do with it.
My dad always made a big deal out of cleaning his rifles outside and never bringing them inside loaded. Until one cold hunting trip when his family was not in the camp.... We teased him for years about the hole that went through the wall and then through the headboard of his bed.
I won't even let the kids point goofy looking fake guns. Freaks me out. Water pistols not allowed in the face either. I be mean mom.
Oh Jesse. Does your work do like neighborhood centers? Specifically tutoring?
Yeah, in a lot of places -- tutoring wouldn't be a national mandate, but I know many locals do it because of course kids need it!
nothing that looks like a real gun is allowed in our house.
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Actually, it's best to not have toy guns that look too real. A little boy was shot recently, seemingly because he pointed a real-looking toy gun at a cop.
ION, guess what's been going on in that socialist country to our North:
At the science fair, girls dominate the class
To qualify for this week's Canada-Wide Science Fair in Winnipeg, Larissa Christie logged hundreds of hours investigating North America's vanishing bee population.
Why Canada's young male scientists also seem to be disappearing, she says, is easier to explain.
"So many girls are just determined," said Larissa, 15, speaking from the University of Manitoba, where 500 of Canada's best young scientists are competing for almost $1-million in scholarships and grants that will be handed out today.
As female students increasingly dominate in science competitions across the country, educators are facing a conundrum that requires more social analysis than hard science: Boys are not just getting beaten by girls — they're not even showing up.
Five years ago, boys made up 55 per cent of the competitors at the annual Canada-Wide Science Fair, a national competition where youth in grades 7 to 12 compete against other regional representatives. After a steady decline, this year boys are in the minority at 44 per cent.
Girls are also claiming the lion's share of prize money available each year: Eight of the last nine overall winners have been female.
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Others say some boys simply lack motivation.
"If I were to say [why] — I know this might sound a bit sexist — but most of the time, the girls are more persistent in the work," said Ronan Lefol, a Grade 12 student from Saskatoon, who started competing in science fairs in Grade 1 and has gone on to win thousands of dollars in scholarship money.
Megan Hawse, 13, said many of her male peers in Mount Pearl, Nfld., would rather play sports than spend the hours she logged on evenings and weekends for her experiment on whether algae could be a sufficient source of Omega 3 for humans.
