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deez_nuts_730 t1_j9wwdzw wrote

I'm one of those actually that do. When I was 11, I was being a dumb fucking 11 year old. I was playing COD online and thought it would be cool to grab my father's .45 and mess around with it. Playing marine in the game and IRL, what could be cooler? I was messing around with my father's gun and died in the game. I pretended to shoot myself with the gun out of frustration, stupid kid stuff. Then I aimed the gun at the floor and pulled the trigger and it fired a round into the floor. To this day I swear when I was playing around and shot at myself I pulled the trigger and nothing happened. I don't know how or why I'm still alive, but I know for a fact I've never been closer to death than when I was pointing that loaded gun at myself thinking I was funny.

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-DethLok- t1_j9x89mx wrote

Lucky!!

And...

... Only in the USA...

How does an 11 year old have access to a loaded .45 pistol?

Aussie here, that father would be facing serious charges and lose their gun licence - assuming they had one in the first place.

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Blue-Jay42 t1_j9xut3z wrote

Depends on the state. In general, it's illegal for anyone to operate a weapon until the age of 18 (with exception if you are 13 and supervised) but most jurisdictions place the blame on the parents, and they would get in trouble. Notable though, having access to something is often argued in court about "access" means.

There was one case of a court ruling that a parent was neglectful for allowing access to a gun, but the gun was unloaded and locked in a safe. Since the kid was able to crack the code to the safe, and figured out how to load the gun. Don't remember what state that was. Probably New York or California.

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Belteshazzar98 t1_j9y2rr8 wrote

They would be facing heavy charges here in the US too. They just aren't going to get caught unless someone actually dies or is injured by their kid using the gun.

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DetectiveWonderful42 t1_j9xsht7 wrote

I was in detox one time when I was younger for a bad Xanax addiction. My room mate for those 3 days was an alcoholic who had planned to kill himself . He planned to , he layed a tarp down on the patio of his parents house so they wouldn’t have to clean the mess . He had a gun (I forget what type but it was a shotgun) and put it in his mouth and pulled the trigger. It jammed .

I slept next to him thinking about that every night . It made my problems seem smaller than some else’s and began my journey with meditation .

Glad your hear with us friend .

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Shreddersson t1_j9xuisb wrote

Bro death brought the whole stadium to your show and every time you were pulling the trigger they were "Oooo Aaaaa whaaaa haaaa"

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