Man attempts suicide, shoots girlfriend accidentally

[GilpinGuy]

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Here's one for the WTF files:

Skagway Man Gets 7 Years in Accidental Shooting

JUNEAU - A 50-year-old Skagway man will serve seven years in jail after accidentally shooting his girlfriend during a suicide attempt.

Carl Timothy Forester was sentenced Tuesday for assault.

The Juneau Empire reports Judge Philip Pallenberg also ordered Forester's firearms be surrendered to the state for destruction after the November shooting, which he says was "six inches away" from being a homicide.

Authorities said he was depressed and put the shotgun in his mouth. His girlfriend tried to stop him by hitting him in the head with the butt of another gun, but that caused him to involuntarily squeeze the trigger and shoot her in the upper chest.

The victim, who is permanently disfigured, begged the judge for a more lenient sentence, saying there was no intent to harm her.

[sniper7]

That sucks all the way around

[Irving]

What I got from the article is that guns save lives. Good thing she had that other gun to hit him in the face with.

[jerrymrc]

She should have just shot him to stop the suicide.

[theGinsue]

Had he been aiming at a dove and she had hit him with another gun and she was accidentally shot, would he still be going to prison?

Between the judge, the permanently disfigured girlfriend, and the dude attempting a lead lobotomy I'd say there's plenty of stupid to go around.

[Bailey Guns]

Imagine the kids these two could produce.

[Jer]

Imagine the kids these two could produce.

...and to think the movie Idiocracy was a fictitious comedy. It's looking more and more a prediction of things to come every day that passes. If Sceintology can be a religion how is Idiocracy not yet a religion?

[ChunkyMonkey]

Imagine the kids these two could produce.

Prolly couldve run for presidency and won. Look who we have now.