History Main / RecklessGunUsage

* ''Film/EightMile'': Eminem's friend shoots himself ([[GroinAttack in a very sensitive part]]) in the act of [[PantsPositiveSafety putting a gun in his waistband]] -- [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction with surprisingly little reaction.]]

* The members of Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses are all extremely reckless with their weapons

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Averted in the time-travel episode where Wheeler shows off his gun-twirling skills with a revolver. Kwami worries that he might accidentally shoot himself, until Greedly's henchman accidentally spills the beans that the gun is empty.
-->''[Wheeler tests out the gun provided to him]''\\
'''Mah-ti:''' He is quite good!\\
'''Kwami:''' I hope he does not shoot himself...\\
'''Henchman:''' He can't. He ain't got no bullets. ... Ooops!\\
'''Linka:''' WHAT!? WHEELER! YOU AIN'T GOT NO BULLETS!\\
'''Wheeler:''' Huh!? ''[[[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks loses his grip on the gun, which flies and conks Greedly on the head]]]''

--> [[spoiler:Det Norris: So these idiots are shooting forties two blocks down, and now this Carcetti fuck gets to be mayor? What a town.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': When the [[FiringInTheAirALot celebratory gun shot]] the head of the Martillo family fires is immediately met with "Oh my God, somebody just killed Isaac!" from the floor above (luckily, Isaac's PluckyComicRelief status means it actually only went through the brim of his hat without touching him).
* ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'': Manami is a huge gun enthusiast but doesn't have much experience in handling firearms, so she tends to carelessly wave them around, even in crowded restaurants. It's less dangerous than most examples since her guns are loaded with Catian quasi-antimatter bullets that disintegrate non-living matter in a radius of about a foot but are completely harmless to living targets (other than [[TheNudifier leaving them naked]]) but it's still amazing that she doesn't get chewed out more by Aoi, who actually is trained in firearms.

* In the ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13562059/1/Fate-Twin-Souls Fate-Twin Souls]]'', the extreme {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Flat Escardos asks Kairi Sisigou to let him hold his gun. Kairi obliges but is smart enough to remove the bullets first. Good call; as soon as Flat gets a hold of it, he starts playing around, pointing the gun in random directions and pulling the trigger repeatedly.

** Then there was the OverprotectiveDad who came at his daughter's boyfriend with a revolver and fired it at him -- only to reveal he'd loaded it with blanks. Bad enough for this trope on its own, even worse when he then tries to demonstrate that it's "harmless" by placing the muzzle to his head and pulling the trigger, which causes the flash from the blank to propel a chunk of his own skull through his brain and kill him.

** Then there's ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' where Chief Wiggum eats donuts off his gun with the barrel pointing directly into his mouth. It then goes off, but the recoil apparently causes the gun to shoot skywards instead, leaving him with a bullethole right through the brim of his hat. He says "Wooooah, that was close!", before [[TooDumbToLive immediately continuing to munch on the donuts]].

** Then there's ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' where Chief Wiggum eats donuts off his gun with the barrel pointing directly into his mouth. It then goes off, but the recoil apparently causes the gun to shoot skywards instead, creating a bullethole in the brim of his hat. He says "Wooooah, that was close!", before [[TooDumbToLive immediately continuing to munch on the donuts]].

** Then there's ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' where Chief Wiggum eats donuts off the barrel of his handgun, which goes off while he does so, but somehow he is not shot. Immediately after stating his relief over this close call, [[TooDumbToLive he continues to eat the donuts in the same way]].

* American lawyer [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Vallandigham Clement Vallandigham]] was representing a man who was believed to have killed another man. Vallandingham argued the other man had in fact shot himself; to demonstrate this, he selected a pistol he believed to be unloaded, placed it in his pocket, and began a re-enactment of what he proposed had occurred - during which, well, you can guess. He died a day later, his last words reportedly being to affirm his belief in Predestination, presumably putting the blame on God for the whole mess[[note]]God's legal representation could not be reached for comment[[/note]]. His client was not found guilty as a result, although ironically enough he would be shot to death in another barroom brawl just four years later.

* American lawyer [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Vallandigham Clement Vallandigham]] was representing a man who was believed to have killed another man. He had argued the other man had in fact shot himself. To demonstrate this, he took out his own pistol to prove it. Evidentially he forgot his pistol was loaded and well you know what happened next. His client was not found guilty as a result though ironically his client would be shot to death in another barroom brawl four years later.

* ''Anime/AssassinationClassroom'': In possibly one of the most egregious examples in all of anime, an assassin is shown to have a preference for eating ramen by dipping his loaded revolver into the bowl, then slurping the broth out of the barrel. With his finger on the trigger the whole time. The fact that the show has a no-killing policy is the only reason he doesn't end up introducing what little brains he has to the fresh air.

* In the summer of 2020, a [[MemeticMutation social media fad]] emerged where people, ostensibly [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem right-wing Americans]], would point loaded pistols at their own genitals and take a photo. One unidentified man [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3zeew/gun-enthusiasts-celebrate-man-who-shot-himself-in-the-balls-as-their-king actually did]] manage to blast his own testicles into oblivion by accidentally pulling the trigger.

* Film/InventionForDestruction'': During the train trip, a passenger tries to shoot a bird out the window with a shotgun. After both barrels fail to fire, he sits back down, only for the gun to go off a second later; blowing a hole in the newspaper of the passenger sitting opposite.