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You know how you shouldn't screw around with guns because they're dangerous? Well, the normal rules don't apply when it comes to [[Rule of Funny|comedy]]. Whether it's the [[The Simpsons|police chief]] [[Artistic License Gun Safety|eating donuts off his gun barrel]] or [[Reckless Gun Usage|some clown]] juggling loaded guns, the normal rules of safety don't apply.
Frequently results in [[Amusing Injuries]] from gunshot wounds or a superficial case of [[Ash Face]]. Caused by whichever combination of [[Artistic License Gun Safety]], [[Reckless Gun Usage]] and [[Shur Fine Guns]] would maximize the laughs. When gunshot wounds are used seriously, that's [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face]]. See also [[Remonstrating with a Gun]].
Not to be confused with [[Cartoon Juggling]], though actually juggling loaded guns in any cartoon (or [[Real Life]], for that matter), is probably just as bad an example as any of these following examples.
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* ''[[Asobi ni Iku yo!|Asobi Ni Iku Yo]]'': has one of the haremettes opening fire on the main character on full auto with a machinegun 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.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]? Fumoffu'' 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").
* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'': 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 [[Monster of the Week|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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** His best part was when he tried to shoot a Wraith, and hit the magazine release instead...
** Probably has something to do with the heavily lampshaded routine of Rodney being the one to always find the solutions to things, he hasn't had time to seek out proper instruction. The fact that everyone else on the team seems fairly competent means that they may not even do the standard equipment and safety check.
** 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. The same thing happened to Daniel Jackson in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', who ended up being as much a military commando as he was an archaeologist.
* ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'': The episode "The Gang Cracks The Liberty Bell" has Frank and Charlie discovering one of the rifles they've purchased is defective when it fails to kill Dee. They check the rest by taking turns staring down the barrel of each gun while the other pulls the trigger.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': episode "End of Days", it is implied that Willow and Tara's cat, Miss Kitty Fantastico, met her demise in a tragic crossbow accident.
{{quote|'''Dawn:''' Xander, my crossbow is not out here. I told you, I don't leave crossbows around all willy-nilly. Not since that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico.}}
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* ''[[Lego Star Wars]] II'': After being handed the lightsaber Luke turns it on and Obi-Wan ducks out of the way. Luke then swings it a few times and inadvertently beheads C3PO.
* ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'': 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 [[Your Head Asplode|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.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' played with: Ocelot is fond of literally doing this as an extreme form of [[Russian Roulette]].
* ''[[Comic Jumper]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dor_v-7-DGg Captain Smiley accidentally shoots the cameraman during this ad].
* [[Too Dumb to Live|Captain Qwark]], in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]: [[Ratchet and Clank A Crack In Time|A Crack In Time]]''.
{{quote|'''Qwark:''' This Lombax is young. He does not understand that being a hero is [[Too Many Halves|45% strength, 60% bravery, and 10% raw intelligence.]] *points to his head with the barrel of his laser gun*}}
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'''Cornfed:''' "Careful, son, I don't think the safety is on."
'''Duckman:''' Before that! }}
* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Dale tells a story again 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 the two-part whodunnit in which Debbie dies, it turns out she accidentally shot herself while trying to climb back into the dumpster she was hiding in ([[It Makes Sense in Context|she was planning to shoot Buck]]) while struggling to carry fast food and a shotgun at the same time.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' also does this; in an episode where Peter becomes the town sheriff, [[Shoot the Hostage|he aims at a thug holding his son hostage and pulls the trigger]]. After the gun fails to fire, [[Too Dumb to Live|he then examines the jam by looking down the barrel.]] Rather than being [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face|hit and killed by a bullet from his pistol]], he is instead punished with [[Running Gag|a raccoon to the face]].
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