NH Gun Imbeciles

A spate of morons with guns has gone off in the state. Funny thing is that neither of these incidents involves anyone that should have had a handgun, being under 21 and all that. I'm sure it's the guns fault.

First there's the "drive me home bandits."

Two Derry teens have been charged with kidnapping a teenage girl at gunpoint and forcing her to drive them home from a party in Fremont.

Jason Lyons, 18, and Derek White, 17, were trying to leave a party Feb. 3 after they learned police were on the way. Officers were responding to a report that Lyons had hit a 17-year-old boy in the face with a handgun, causing cuts and bruises.

Police Chief Neal Janvrin said White forced the 17-year-old girl to sit on a couch by waving a knife at her, then Lyons cocked a handgun, pointed it at her head, and forced her into her car to drive him and White to Lyons’ apartment in Derry.

At the apartment, Janvrin said the two let the girl go and she called police.

Yeah, the knife is interesting as well, they didn't need the gun. But, doesn't that strike you as especially moronic to have the victim drive you to your apartment? I'm sure that the use of mind altering agents of some sort were not involved. Seeing as they aren't mentioned.

Then there is the Darwin award winner of the week:

MANCHESTER (AP) – He pulled the trigger once and nothing happened. He had played Russian roulette and won. Then, witnesses say, 19-year-old Anthony Santiago Cadiz Jr. tried again, and lost.

Cadiz accidentally killed himself Monday night while playing Russian roulette with a .357 caliber Magnum revolver.

Accidentally? You place a gun to your head and pull the trigger twice. I don't see anything accidental there. I see willing active stupidity. I haven't found anything mentioning his suicidal tendencies in the news, so I'm just banking on stupid.

UPDATE:
MassBackwards has a funny post on the genius with the .357.