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Weird Friday, January 4th 2013 at 2:15 pm

Teen Accidentally Shoots Brother in Head While Posing for New Year’s Eve Facebook Photo

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When you’ve been out on the town drinking the night away, and someone produces a very real handgun after you’ve returned home, the next step is absolutely not to begin striking poses with it for Facebook photos. In fact, this is pretty much the exact opposite of what you should do. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop people from doing so. Manuel Ortiz, 22, and his sister Savannah Ramirez, 19, of Phoenix, Arizona returned home from spending New Year’s Eve out drinking, and one of the other two people with them happened to have a gun. While posing with it for a Facebook photo, Ramirez accidentally shot her brother in the head, killing him instantly.

As someone that taught gun safety for nearly a decade, this whole situation is a bit sickening. At what point did these two learn that this kind of needless swaggering was acceptable? Guns aren’t toys, after all. Even if it hadn’t been loaded, posing with the gun to his head like in The Sun’s picture is still incredibly stupid of Ortiz, and we can only imagine what kind of pose Ramirez was in when Ortiz was killed.

If tests conclude that Ramirez did have alcohol in her body, it’s likely that she could be charged with manslaughter, but that’s chump change compared to living out the rest of her life with this particular incident on her hands. The beginning of every year will almost certainly freshly open up that wound.

What it boils down to is this: Don’t point at gun at anything you’re not ready to kill.

(via The Sun, image via Dave Edwards)

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  • http://twitter.com/Mesoian Mesoian

    It’s sad. Honestly though, I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often.

  • jack

    It happens every day..but the media is now in gun frenzy mode after the recent happenings.

  • Stealthnugget

    Hm… as sad as this is, it’s also sad that this won’t keep more stupid out of the genepool.

  • IamMcKay

    What it boils down to is this: Dont own a gun on the pretense of a 19th century constitutional amendment taken out of context.

  • Enthusiast

    Clearly, you don’t know the context of the amendment.

  • pglusmc

    Ignorant statement.

  • Just someone you used to know

    Lol this is hilarious. I love stupid people and their amusing antics

  • Chuck

    Where’s the Facebook pic?

  • kim

    I don’t know the context, can I guess in saying that they were allowed guns because they didnt have enough police to maintain the streets and something to do with the civil war? only my guess okay

  • Anonymous

    I thought it was from the 18th century… You know, the 1700s…

  • Anonymous

    i’m sad to report that we’re running out of Darwin awards at this pace.

  • Benjamin Eugene NElson

    Every day? [citation needed]

    I will agree that it’s Darwinism in action though

  • Bambucha

    Thank-you for pointing out that the tragedy that occurred was through a fault of judgement, and not trying to denigrate the ownership of firearms itself. News presentation deals with the facts, not the emotions, conjecture or attempts at ‘rousing the rabble’.

    Unlike what we have from ‘mainstream media’.