History Main / JugglingLoadedGuns

* ''Videogame/Metro2033'' and ''Videogame/MetroLastLight'' has some seriously unsafe (and generally hilarious) {{Idle Animation}}s. [[PlayerCharacter Artyom]] will start throwing his fully-loaded submachine gun [[ScavengerWorld built from old steel pipes]] into the air until it whacks him in the head, he'll crush his finger while playing with the hammer on his shotgun pistol (and catch his fingers in the SawedOffShotgun's break action), shock himself on the [[MagneticWeapon Volt Driver]], and jam a cleaning rod down a loaded shotgun. The safest animation is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ynSL0rG20 ringing the bell]] on the bicycle shotgun.

* ''Videogame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' played with: Ocelot is fond of literally doing this as an extreme form of RussianRoulette. [[spoiler:The last time he does this in TheStinger, one of the guns he juggles is empty, and the other is empty except for a blank. He's doing it just to test Snake's mettle.]]

* In ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'', [[Videogame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Ocelot]] does his RussianRoulette routine with a hostage [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=291 in a flashback.]] [[WorldsBestWarrior The Boss,]] who is [[DefiedTrope having none of it,]] snatches one of the guns out of the air, points it at the ground, and fires (revealing it to be the gun with the bullet), all the while lecturing Ocelot that "there's no such thing as luck on the battlefield."

-->-- ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3''

* ''Literature/CatPlanetCuties'' has one of the haremettes opening fire on the main character on full auto with a machine gun for the crime of having accidentally seen her naked. It should be noted that said haremette ran outside stark naked to ''help'' the main character she subsequently shot at.

* ''Webcomic/TheDreadful'': [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/06/the-dreadful-110/ A cocky gunslinger]] tries to intimidate Kit by spinning and flipping his revolver around. Kit even invokes the trope by remarking on how dangerous that sort of thing is. [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/06/the-dreadful-111/ Then]] he had to go and call her [[FantasticSlur "pinky"]]. It should be noted that before the (unnamed) gunman made his appearance, Kit put on a display of ImprobableAimingSkills on the rest of his gang ''[[TooDumbToLive and was still holding her gun.]]''

* ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'' has one of the haremettes opening fire on the main character on full auto with a machine gun for the crime of having accidentally seen her naked. It should be noted that said haremette ran outside stark naked to ''help'' the main character she subsequently shot at.

* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': Chubby carries a loaded pistol and an identical looking water pistol filled with vodka that he uses to freshen patrons drinks (and occasionally squirts directly into mouth). He is shown shooting at least one patron's glass and (between episodes) the inevitable happens and he shoots himself in the head.

** "Gun Fever 2: Still Hot" has Charlie prove to Mac in a GunVsSword debate that the idea of him charging his opponent with a katana and cutting them down before they can pull the trigger is nonsense by just pointing Frank's revolver at Mac and pulling the trigger with an audible click a few times. The revolver isn't loaded, but it's still pretty out-there.

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* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'' has a lot of gags involving this. Sousuke is perfectly capable of handling firearms safely, but has vastly distorted standards on which situations call for use of firearms and which ones do not. He opens fire on a light gun game with a real-life loaded pistol because the alternative (firing the system's light gun outside of the screen and therefore pointing it at something you aren't intending to shoot) was "too unsafe," uses a Steyr AUG to fire warning shots to chase off delinquents (a "peaceful solution" by his standards), and ends up using a loaded handgun to accidentally create a riot when trying order at a bread sale (Kaname told him to "get the seller's attention").
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': Panty's gun stops working, so she turns it around, peers into the barrel, and ''pulls the trigger several times.'' Possibly justified because her gun uses magic bullets that only kill the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters Of The Week]], but [[spoiler:Stocking's similar magic swords work just fine against her at the very end of the series]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAssaultOnArkham'': When ComicBook/TheJoker holds him and his group at gunpoint, ComicBook/{{Deadshot}} declares that Joker is [[CountingBullets out of bullets]], coolly approaches him, and threatens to beat the crap out of him when he tries and fails to shoot. Joker insists that he still has bullets, ''looks down the gun barrel'', and fires a shot into the ceiling, giving Deadshot an opening to sucker-punch him.

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* ''Film/TheATeam'': When two CIA agents attempt to off Pike in the back of the car and lampshaded by the target himself. In fact, Pike begs Lynch not to let that guy shoot him because that'd just be embarrassing. The agent to his left seemed to suck at gun safety and was stupidly putting a [[strike:silencer]] suppressor on his pistol. While the gun's pointed at him no less. He then proceeds to aim it at Pike such that it'll more likely kill the agent on the right than the target. Pike overpowers him and hands his gun to the agent on the right, hoping that this one isn't as much of a complete imbecile. Sadly, that agent then answers his cellphone, while also pressing the gun to his face. Not to mention that all this was happening in a moving vehicle. By that point, even Lynch was exasperated with the firearms handling incompetence.
* ''Film/AustinPowers'': does it, as he can be seen shaking his arms and blinking uncontrollably whenever he fires his gun. Mike Myers notes in the commentary that it was done only half-intentionally, as Mike himself had [[EnforcedMethodActing never fired a gun before]].

* In the live-action film of ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', Lyle Van De Groot carries lighters that looked like guns. When he and the poachers Max and Thor head out to find Ursula and capture the "White Ape", Lyle mistakenly trades one of his lighters with an African guide for a real one. He plans to use the "lighter" to scare George away, but when George runs over to save Ape from being poached, a shot rings out, followed by a BigNo both from Ape and Lyle (who realizes he accidentally traded his lighter for a real gun), and a [[SayMyName Big GEORGE!!]] from Ursula.

** Danny Butterman shooting the doctor in the leg is also a reference to a short conversation in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', where a character asks if anyone has any experience with guns. Ed raises his hand, and when asked about what his gun experience is, Shaun mentions that Ed shot his sister in the leg with an air rifle.
** The air rifle gag is apparently based on a real-life incident -- in the ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' commentary, Edgar Wright claims that his brother once shot him in the leg with an air rifle.
* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'': features a bunch of cops are firing on the car Not Sure had just exited. One of them has a rocket launcher -- which he proceeds to fire backwards. A few seconds later, a 747 enters the shot going down in flames. Later in the film, the ''U.S. President'' quiets down a rowdy crowd in the House of Representin' by firing a light support weapon into the air.

* ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3'': was kind enough to provide the page quote.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'': Blackbeard at one point plays a version of Russian roulette with 2 loaded pistols out of 6 to shoot at his daughter Angelica, with Jack Sparrow having to choose the pistols. After the first pistol was an unloaded one, Jack thinks he's bluffing, picks up another pistol and starts swinging it around, causing the rest of the crew to duck when it's pointed in their direction. Smart, because when Jack fires it in the air, it turns out that gun ''was'' loaded.
* ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'': a scene where one of the cops scratches his head with the barrel of his revolver. The possible consequence to himself, should his gun go off, would not only be hideous but poetic, as someone who would do that in the first place obviously wasn't using his brains for much to begin with. The actor who played the cop later said he was testing to see if Wood, who rarely did second takes, would notice or care (he didn't). Characters in the film, including said cop, also tend to wave their guns like they were pointers.
* Sgt. Tackleberry of the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' series gets ''at least'' one negligent discharge per film, and uses his sidearms to solve just about every problem he comes across (even down to rescuing kitty cats stuck in trees). Tackleberry is a huge GunNut and is implied to have a military background along with his police training, so the movies being out-and-out slapstick comedies are pretty much his only excuse for being so careless.
* ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther'': Chief Inspector Dreyfus keeps in his office desk both a real gun and a lighter that ''looks just like'' said gun. HilarityEnsues with predictably violent results, such as when his assistant Francois, hearing a gunshot, bursts in the office to see the top half of Dreyfus' face looking up at him from behind his desk:

* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': features a running argument between Ed and Shaun on whether or not The Winchester's namesake gun (mounted over the bar) has been deactivated:
-->''Shaun clubs a zombie with the butt of the Winchester''\\

''Shaun squeezes the trigger of the gun, and it fires''\\

* ''Film/TheThreeStooges'': If a firearm is anywhere near one of Film/TheThreeStooges, you can be assured that every basic rule of gun safety is out the window. One short even has Curly ''giving a pistol to a baby as a pacifier!''

* Creator/StephenColbert: Stephen thinks of [[ICallItVera Sweetness]] as [[CompanionCube more of a lover than a weapon]] and so doesn't pay too much attention to gun safety when he's with her. His bad habit of waving the loaded gun around [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety with his finger on the trigger]] [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/211989/december-02-2008/the-word---a-man-named-plaxico eventually comes back to bite him in the ass]] [[spoiler:when he shots himself in the balls but the bullet ricocheted off]].

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters "The Gunfighters"]], when Doc Holliday gives the Doctor a revolver, the Doctor spends the next few lines unthinkingly pointing it alternately at Doc and Kate. Whenever they try to push the gun away from them, he ends up pointing it at the other.
** During the StopOrIShootMyself scene in [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV Movie]], at one point The Doctor [[TooDumbToLive absentmindedly]] points the gun straight at the officer he had just taken the gun from. Please note that in RealLife, either of those two actions (attempting to take a gun from a police officer or pointing a firearm at an officer) are '''very''' good ways of being killed by that officer or other officers in the vicinity. He was lucky he got away with it rather than [[TheNthDoctor becoming John Hurt a mite earlier than scheduled…]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]]: An actress threatens Martha and the Doctor with a gun, and handles it in an appallingly cavalier way, waving it around and even briefly pointing it at her own head. The Doctor suggests she should maybe put it down, and she shrugs and tosses it aside. The Doctor and Martha both flinch–-

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': used this a lot with gun fanatic Frank Burns. His appalling gun safety included frequently drawing his gun with his finger on the trigger, more than once accidentally shooting something, and at one point, accidentally shooting BJ, for which he was relentlessly mocked.
-->'''Frank:''' Sir, I think the Chinese have captured Major Houlihan!!\\

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' does it pretty much every time Rodney [=McKay=] fires a gun. Justified since he has no military experience and no training with firearms. In one episode, he frantically asks someone else what the hell he's supposed to do when ''[[TooDumbToLive his gun runs out of bullets]]''. Why he hasn't sought out proper instruction on ''how'' to use weapons beyond "bullets come out of this end" by now is part of his many many flaws.
** His best part was when he tried to shoot a Wraith, and hit the magazine release instead...[[note]]He does, over the course of the show, go from barely being able to operate a pistol to carrying a P90 and using it fairly competently, though never quite as well the rest of the team.[[/note]]

--> And James was rubbish with the shotgun.

* Used in the music video for "Walk" by the Music/FooFighters after the rest of the band (minus Dave Grohl who's being arrested) becomes friends with the cops. This includes taking a picture while pointing guns stylishly at the camera and Taylor Hawkins literally juggling a loaded gun.

* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'': Two of his idle animations are to twirl his blaster on his finger, throw it in the air, catch it and holster it. The aversion is done successfully, with no harm done. In the second (straight) version he catches it wrong, and it blasts him in the face. (Unfortunately, his [[YourHeadAsplode head does not asplode]].) A third idle animation splits the difference — after Jim tosses the gun in the air, it lands on his head, but doesn't go off.

* ''VideoGame/ComicJumper'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dor_v-7-DGg Captain Smiley accidentally shoots the cameraman during this ad.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Deadpool}}'' starts with the titular character hanging around his apartment lounging in his recliner, occasionally scratching his crotch with one of his pistols.
* ''Videogame/{{Metro2033}}'' and ''Videogame/MetroLastLight'' has some seriously unsafe (and generally hilarious) {{Idle Animation}}s. [[PlayerCharacter Artyom]] will start throwing his fully-loaded submachine gun [[ScavengerWorld built from old steel pipes]] into the air until it whacks him in the head, he'll crush his finger while playing with the hammer on his shotgun pistol (and catch his fingers in the SawedOffShotgun's break action), shock himself on the [[MagneticWeapon Volt Driver]], and jam a cleaning rod down a loaded shotgun. The safest animation is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ynSL0rG20 ringing the bell]] on the bicycle shotgun.

* In ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'', [[Videogame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater Ocelot]] does his RussianRoulette routine with a hostage [[http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=291 in a flashback.]] [[WorldsBestWarrior The Boss,]] who is [[DefiedTrope having none of it,]] snatches one of the guns out of the air, points it at the ground, and fires (revealing it to be the gun with the bullet), all the while lecturing Ocelot that "there's no such thing as luck on the battlefield."
--> '''Raven:''' ...How--
--> '''Mantis:''' Shut up. I'm doing the math.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' had the eponymous amorph [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-05-17 literally juggling]] his plasma guns... lacking safety switches and powerful enough that he need only one to use as a makeshift {{jetpack}}. Then again, dumb luck and unusual biology are the only reasons he survives.
** That said, he also invokes the trope at one point -- he acquires a pair of {{BFG}}s and saws the barrels in half to make them more maneuverable. When Kevyn points out that he cut off all the safety mechanisms that'd stop the guns from blowing up in his face and insists on repairing them, Schlock demands that he not make the gun ''look'' any safer.

* ''Webcomic/TheDreadful'': [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/06/the-dreadful-110/ A cocky gunslinger]] tries to intimidate Kit by spinning and flipping his revolver around. Kit even invokes the trope by remarking on how dangerous that sort of thing is. [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2012/04/06/the-dreadful-111/ Then]] he had to go and call her [[FantasticSlur "pinky."]] It should be noted that before the (unnamed) gunman made his appearance, Kit put on a display of ImprobableAimingSkills on the rest of his gang ''[[TooDumbToLive and was still holding her gun.]]''
* ''Webcomic/GoneWithTheBlastwave'' has an ArmedFarces cast full of depressed people, apathetic people, incompetents, sociopaths, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs depressed apathetic incompetent sociopaths]]. All of the many, many examples of improper gun use and handling are PlayedForLaughs.
-->''"Friendly fire you goddamned son of a b-"''
* ''Webcomic/PoisonIvyGulch'': Happens on 6/11/2021 when an obviously drunk deputy shoots up Marshal Art's hat.

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* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': shows blatant disregard for gun safety, often waving the gun around, discharging it at unsafe distances, not unloading the magazine, not uncocking the pin, etc. He would likely accidentally blow his head off in real life. Then again he has blown his head off on purpose enough times already in character. The actor, Doug Walker, is of course using a prop gun, which is just an airsoft gun with the orange tip painted black.
** Bennett the Sage takes this to the extreme in the two-year anniversary special ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}'' where, as Surgeon General of Kickassia, he determines that Uzis make you unkillable, on the grounds that [[LogicalFallacies he's holding one, and he isn't dead]]. He's later seen wiping tears away ''with the barrel of the Uzi.''
* ''Website/TheOnion'', [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/8yearold-accidentally-exercises-second-amendment-r,725/ this article,]] an 8-year-old boy who unintentionally shot himself in the thigh wins praise from {{Strawman Political}}s for having exercised his constitutional rights.

* [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6558847/troopers-gun-privileges "Gun Privileges,"]] an episode of ''Troopers'' from ''Website/CollegeHumor'', is full of this.
* Several ''Website/DarwinAwards'' have been handed out to those who shouldn't be allowed to handle guns.
* [[https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152448955334391&fref=nf This video]] with a man using a gun's slide action to power a toothbrush, which of course he sticks in his mouth. Incredibly unsafe trigger discipline, and he even points the gun at the camera while doing so!
* ''WebVideo/SheriffDomestic'': The Care {{Expy}} is jailed by Dick Head for brushing her teeth with a gun. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

** Homer buys a gun and uses it for such things as opening a can of beer, turning off lights, and turning on his TV (complete with a Mook from a Western falling off a roof at that exact moment). He becomes a member of the local gun club, and despite how trigger happy they are, even they are horrified at his total lack of responsibility and expel him immediately. By third-act, Marge takes the kids and moves out of the house until Homer can learn to control himself. Considering all the things she's put up with from him, this actually says quite a lot.
*** Hell, considering the very first thing he did in the gun store was ''[[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety point it at the clerk and pull the trigger five times]]'' (with no bullets inside, of course), it's a wonder the clerk sold him the gun at all.
*** This is, incidentally, TruthInTelevision, as a lot of new customers will do that exact thing when buying their first firearm.

---> '''Chief Wiggum:''' ''[the fly lands on his nose]'' HA!! I've got you now!! ''[cut to commercial]''

--->'''Marge:''' I don't think the guns are a good idea.
--->'''Homer:''' Marge! We're responsible adults. And—
--->'''Moe:''' ''[shoots]'' Whoops.
--->'''Homer:''' And if a group of responsible adults can't handle firearms in a responsible way—
--->'''Sea Captain:''' ''[shoots]'' Sorry.
--->'''Skinner:''' ''[shoots]'' Uh-oh.
--->'''Moe:''' ''[shoots]'' Me again.
--->'''Bart:''' ''[shoots]'' Sorry.

** One comic book had Homer attend an "Arm The Elderly" rally. To the frustration and astonishment of the GrimReaper, everyone somehow survived.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Elmer Fudd, for an avid hunter, ignores pretty much every rule of gun safety while out hunting wabbits. Also, there's the scene from ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire'', where Daffy looks down the barrel of Elmer's gun and finds out the hard way that there was [[OneBulletLeft One Buwwet Weft]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'':
--> '''Duckman:''' Did I ever tell you my Dad's last words to me?\\
'''Cornfed:''' "Careful, son, I don't think the safety is on."\\
'''Duckman:''' Before that!
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
** In "Soldier of Misfortune" Dale once again tells a story to the gun club members about how he assassinated a Central American dictator. He twirls his gun and accidentally drops and discharges it hitting the cash register. This panicked the others and ruins Dale's reputation as president.
** In a two-part whodunnit, Buck Strickland's mistress Debbie is found dead in a dumpster behind the barbecue restaurant he owns, and Buck, his wife Ms. Liz, and Hank are all suspects. Eventually, the Texas Ranger investigating the case reveals what really happened: Debbie was hiding in the dumpster with a shotgun to ambush Buck, went across the street to a convenience store to buy snacks when she got hungry, and then tried to climb back into the dumpster while juggling the shotgun and an armload of snacks; this caused the gun to discharge, accidentally killing her.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
** In an episode where Peter becomes the town sheriff, [[ShootTheHostage he aims at a thug holding his son hostage and pulls the trigger]]. After the gun fails to fire, he then examines the jam by looking down the barrel. Rather than being hit and killed by a bullet from his pistol, he is instead punished with a raccoon to the face.
** He literally juggles a loaded gun in a deleted scene from another episode as UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's fictional brother. He kills Hitler by accident, continues to juggle the gun as Eva Braun berates him, accidentally shoots her too, then places the gun in Eva's hand to make it look like they committed suicide with it before silently moving away.
* In the Creator/RalphBakshi film ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'', a GasMaskMook starts screaming about how "They killed Fritz." Fritz gets up and tells him that he's ok. Max (the first mook) crosses his arms in disappointment that he won't get the chance to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and accidentally shoots Fritz while his arms are crossed.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', Brett's primary character trait is "gets shot in the office regularly." As of Season 3 he seems to know this, after someone demonstrates a car's bulletproof shields and he gets hit by a ricochet. Becomes RunningGagged when he finally suffers a fatal shot during a CIA raid of their headquarters.
-->'''Brett:''' Yeah, I'm like a magnet...
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'':
** In "SPF", Peanut is seen cleaning a gun while pointing the barrel to his face.
** In another episode, Phil is juggling a baby, a target, and a shotgun (and is shooting the target while juggling all three). Of course it's not REALLY unsafe until Harvey helps out...
* In ''WesternAnimation/PorkysDuckHunt'', Porky, while showing off his hunting gear, aims his shotgun at his dog, then says it's unloaded, points it at the ceiling and pulls the trigger, firing it. His upstairs neighbour then comes down and punches him in the face, then walks away with a hole in his pants. After Porky's unsuccessful hunt, Porky disgustedly throws his gun on the floor, causing it to fire into the ceiling again. The neighbour upstairs comes down and punches Porky in the face again, then walks off with two holes in his pants.

-->'''Narrator:''' Whew! Okay, kids, let's settle down and review the important information. [[WhatAnIdiot Lyle is a big doofus]]. Poor George was really shot, [[PlotArmor but can't die because let's face it, he's the hero.]]

* The Creator/MarxBrothers film ''Film/MonkeyBusiness'' has a gangster hands revolvers to both Groucho and Zeppo on two separate occasions. Both times he does so he immediately realizes that they are absentmindedly pointing them right at him, and grabs their hands to turn the guns aside. Don't hand weapons to people who don't know proper gun safety, somebody will get [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace shot in the face.]] [[WhatAnIdiot Another gangster]] in the same film gives guns to ''Chico'' and ''Harpo''.

* In ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'', Watson announces Holmes' arrival by bursting into the Old Bailey firing his revolver wildly: shooting--amongst other things--the judge's gavel, the clock, and--in a 'blink-and-you'll-miss-it gag'--a spectator in the gallery.
* ''Film/HotFuzz'': Danny accidentally shoots the village doctor with an air gun. Later on, when [[spoiler: Angel and Danny are gunning down the NWA during the return to the village, Danny takes down the doctor by throwing his shotgun and blowing apart his foot with the blast when it hits the ground]].

** The air rifle gag is apparently based on a real-life incident - in the ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' commentary, Edgar Wright claims that his brother once shot him in the leg with an air rifle.
* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'': features a bunch of cops are firing on the car Not Sure had just exited. One of them has a rocket launcher - which he proceeds to fire backwards. A few seconds later, a 747 enters the shot going down in flames. Later in the film, the ''U.S. President'' quiets down a rowdy crowd in the House of Representin' by firing a light support weapon into the air.

* ''Film/MarsAttacks'': When a soldier runs screaming towards a rifle, points it at a Martian - and hits the magazine release.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]]: An actress threatens Martha and the Doctor with a gun, and handles it in an appallingly cavalier way, waving it around and even briefly pointing it at her own head. The Doctor suggests she should maybe put it down, and she shrugs and tosses it aside. The Doctor and Martha both flinch–

** That said, he also invokes the trope at one point--he acquires a pair of {{BFG}}s and saws the barrels in half to make them more maneuverable. When Kevyn points out that he cut off all the safety mechanisms that'd stop the guns from blowing up in his face and insists on repairing them, Schlock demands that he not make the gun ''look'' any safer.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', Chief Wiggum can't carry enough donuts, so he stacks them on the barrel of his gun, and then eats them straight off it. The gun goes off while he's between bites, blowing a hole through his hat. He says "Whoa, that was a close one!" and continues eating. Another episode, showing film of him when he was younger at a firing range, has him looking down the barrel after his gun stops and getting yelled at by his instructor ("What did I say about pointsy-twardsies?"). He then gives the instructor a back massage with the gun and it goes off and shoots the cameraman. He's later shown to have gotten the position of Chief by giving the Mayor a back massage with his gun. Another episode showed Wiggum cleaning his ears with the barrel of his gun, and yet another showed him firing at his TV after forgetting where he left the remote. It was in his gun holster.
** Yet ''another'' Wiggum example is a recent episode where he used two gun barrels as ''earplugs''.

---> '''Chief Wiggum:''' *the fly lands on his nose* HA!! I've got you now!! *cut to commercial*

** Also done in Homer The Vigilante:

--->'''Homer:''' Marge! We're responsible adults. And —
--->'''Moe:''' [shoots] Whoops.
--->'''Homer:''' And if a group of responsible adults can't handle firearms in a responsible way —
--->'''Sea Captain:''' [shoots] Sorry.
--->'''Skinner:''' [shoots] Uh oh.
--->'''Moe:''' [shoots] Me again.
--->'''Bart:''' [shoots] Sorry.

--->'''Homer:''' I'm cleaning my gun with the safety off, safety off, safety off, I'm cleaning my gun with the safety off on a cold and frosty--[shoots]

* In the Creator/RalphBakshi film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}''. A GasMaskMook starts screaming about how "They killed Fritz." Fritz gets up and tells him that he's ok. Max (the first mook) crosses his arms in disappointment that he won't get the chance to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and accidentally shoots Fritz while his arms are crossed.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', Brett's primary character trait is "gets shot in the office regularly." As of Season 3 he seems to know this, after someone demonstrates a car's bulletproof shields and he gets hit by a ricochet:

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Elmer Fudd, for an avid hunter, ignores pretty much every rule of gun safety while out hunting wabbits. Also, there's the scene from ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire'', where Daffy looks down the barrel of Elmer's gun and finds out the hard way that there was OneBuwwetWeft.

** In "Soldier of Misfortune" Dale once again tells a story to the gun club members how he assassinated a Central American dictator. He twirls his gun and accidentally drops and discharges it hitting the cash register. This panicked the others and ruins Dale's reputation as president.
** In a two-part whodunnit, Buck Strickland's mistress Debbie is found dead in a dumpster behind the barbecue restaurant he owns, and Buck, his wife Ms. Liz, and Hank are all suspects. Eventually the Texas Ranger investigating the case reveals what really happened: Debbie was hiding in the dumpster with a shotgun to ambush Buck, went across the street to a convenience store to buy snacks when she got hungry, and then tried to climb back into the dumpster while juggling the shotgun and an armload of snacks; this caused the gun to discharge, accidentally killing her.

* ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' has one of the college kids threatening the duo with a cop's pistol, and Dale [[TooDumbToLive helpfully points out]] that [[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont the safety's still on]]. Naturally, the college student ''points the gun at his own face'' when trying to remove the safety.

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[[caption-width-right:325: Guns don't kill people, [[{{Metaphorgotten}} doughnuts kill people.]]]]