I say GUN! You say NUT. GUN! NUT! GUN! NUT!

Apparently, there's a new genre on social media, Facebook edition. It's the gathering place for a stellar group of brilliant, thoughtful and ever-so-careful gun enthusiasts whose special interest is sharing pictures and videos of themselves pointing their weapon of choice at their private parts.

First off, who thinks this stuff up? 

It's not like trying to convene online with your high school classmates, or fans of The Bobbsey Twins, or slow cooker addicts. I mean, who wakes up one morning and decides to do a bit of thrill seeking by pointing a gun at their man thang? Let alone take a picture of it. Let alone go trawling out there to see if there are any other folks who enjoy the same sort of perverto hobby. Which apparently there are.

Second of all, isn't the inevitable going to happen to one member of the gang? I guess the thinking (or non-thinking) is hey, that would never happen to me. 

Of course, it didn't happen to most of the "mes". But it did happen to someone.

A member of a Facebook group dedicated to taking pictures of loaded weapons pointed at dicks finally shot himself in the balls, according to bloody pictures and video he posted on social media and the Imperial County [San Diego] Sheriff's Office, which confirmed the incident to Motherboard. Rather than step back and start questioning whether the practice is wise, the group made him an administrator and are now celebrating him as their king.  (Source: Matthew Gault in Vice)

The member who'd shot his member kept posting in real time, and offered a bit of a confession:

"...I might have fucked up,” the man who shot himself in the balls wrote above a picture of his naked legs and splattered blood on the carpet of his floor. A towel is stuffed between his legs and a printed out copy of the constitution is crumpled on the edge of the photo.

Um, might have fucked up? I guess that depends on the definition of "might". Or of "fucked up." 

Maybe, I thought, it was a prank. After all, the copy of the constitution seems a bit much, even by gun nut standards.

But, no.

The guy kept posting about the incident, including a pic of himself in the hospital, in his green hospital gown, laid out on a gurney, and telling his little corner of crazy world that the "round went right the fuck through me." Or his scrotum, but they may well be one and the same.

The fellow was discharged and was able to go to work the next day. Good thing, I suppose. Imagine having to bring in a doctor's note explaining this one.

This group - and others like it, and there are, indeed, others like it - actually doesn't think this is behavior is all that good of an idea. They just want to "irritate responsible gun owners." I.e., the softies who care about things like gun safety. And to cock a snook at those who consider folks like this well, gun nuts. 

In response to all the hoopla, the site has posted a statement that includes this:

"...we are sick of being told that just because we like guns It means we have to be anti woman, pro life and pro trump.”

Maybe not, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that, whether they like it or not, this group is pro stupidity.

Imagine the self-own that goes along with shooting yourself anyplace, let alone in your private parts. Good luck when a girlfriend - or, I suppose, boyfriend, although this sounds pretty hetero -  gets curious and asks you what happened here.