Armed and clumsy
• Opherro Jones, 32, shot himself in the stomach while allegedly pistol-whipping a man (Honolulu, June). • A 23-year-old San Francisco police offi- cer accidentally shot himself to death while demonstrating police training techniques to friends at a party (August). • A 24-year-old man accidentally shot himself in the foot while aiming at a turtle (Massillon, Ohio, August). • A 17-year-old boy, and 19-year-old Patrick Jefferson, accidentally shot themselves while "holstering" handguns in their waistbands (in, respectively, Pittsburgh, September, and Chicago, August). • Eric Titov, 22, accidentally shot himself to death while fleeing from police (perhaps caused, they said, by his tripping on his baggy shorts) (Houston, October).