Italy: Shooting wedding photos takes on a whole new meaning

[seamusTX]

In a small town in Sicily (the soccer ball at the toe of the boot of the Italian peninsula, birthplace of the Mafia), a couple reportedly posed for their wedding photos with a .22 rifle. Somebody put the booger hook on the bang switch and shot the photographer, who is not denying rumors of his untimely death.

People often fire guns at weddings and festivals in southern Italy.

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They can't just throw drinking glasses into the fireplace?


- Jim

[Hoi Polloi]

The video posted recently of the the little boy shooting the guy at a wedding was from Italy, wasn't it?

It is interesting to me that he died instantly from a .22. I was told the other day that the most common caliber to cause death is .22, but when considering self defense weapons, .22 are considered too small to do enough good.

[seamusTX]

.22 are considered too small to do enough good.

The problem is that the .22 has too little energy to do enough damage quickly enough to a human being.

In an armed self-defense situation, either the bad guy is going to decamp when he realizes that he is up against more than he expected, or the bad guy is going to be a desperate or crazed lunatic who is not going to stop his murderous actions until some vital organs fail.

- Jim

[The Annoyed Man]

The video posted recently of the the little boy shooting the guy at a wedding was from Italy, wasn't it?

It is interesting to me that he died instantly from a .22. I was told the other day that the most common caliber to cause death is .22, but when considering self defense weapons, .22 are considered too small to do enough good.

If it's the video I'm thinking of, the country was not Italy, but rather an Arabic country, and it was a 1911 in .45 ACP, not a .22. The young child shot and killed his father.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zATVwjvpJlY[/youtube]

[Excaliber]

The video posted recently of the the little boy shooting the guy at a wedding was from Italy, wasn't it?

It is interesting to me that he died instantly from a .22. I was told the other day that the most common caliber to cause death is .22, but when considering self defense weapons, .22 are considered too small to do enough good.

If it's the video I'm thinking of, the country was not Italy, but rather an Arabic country, and it was a 1911 in .45 ACP, not a .22. The young child shot and killed his father.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zATVwjvpJlY[/youtube]

I thought it looked like a Browning Hi-Power or something similar. However, it clearly wasn't a .22 and the effect was immediate and catastrophic for the guy who thought it was OK to give a loaded, cocked semiauto to a very young child to wave around.

He won't be doing that again.

[Hoi Polloi]

That is the unfortunate movie I was thinking of. It looks like he was checking the chamber when he pulled it down and thinking it was empty. His incorrect belief that the gun was out of bullets might have been why he allowed the child to handle it.