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*promote for explaining his accident and sharing the details of his experience. Hats off to his father for being there to save his life.

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I have one question for y'all. Who fucked up? I'm not interested enough to waste 20 minutes for the answer, but I want to know who was at fault.

Well in my many years of competitive tiddly winks, I've had some close calls, but nothing like this.

Perhaps the choice of passtime might itself be a factor?

I guess if you had to pin it to a person - was whoever made the “hot” round that blew the cap off the back of the barrel. Either wrong ratio or too much, so the result was higher PSI than the gun could handle (85000 vs 55000 psi). He said he thought it was legit unused military surplus when he bought it, but maybe it wasn’t.

ho-LY shit. That dude is extraordinarily lucky to be alive. Fucking mad props for keeping that cool when the Grim Reaper keeps texting you.

Am I the only one that twitches a little whenever someone who's nearly died chooses to thank their God instead of all the doctors nurses, and EMTs that were actually directly involved in the life saving process?

The twitching goes away as you get older. Hang in there.

God always gets the best press.

People love to credit him with saving them from near death despite it clearly being extreme efforts by skilled doctors that did, but never blame God when it was pure chance and bad luck that caused their mortal wounds.

To me, if God deserves credit, it's for the chance happening, the bad luck out of anyone's control, not the Herculean human efforts to repair the damage. If people really believed God intervenes, all Christians would be Christian Scientists or Jehovah's witnesses and refuse human medical treatments.

Maybe what these people mean (whether they know it or not) is that their belief in a god gave them the false(yet real enough to them) confidence that they would be ok, which gave them the courage and energy to push through and do all the things to make sure they had the opportunity to have the medical staff fix them. It's like how a lot of people have religion to thank for getting sober and off the street, not because of the divine influence of the hand of god or some shit... some people just need the religious 'narrative' to help them keep moving forward, where others may not need it at all and not see the point.

because obviously if god can physically save this dude's life, then he would have also had the power to make that barrel survive the hot round which I'm sure the dude in question would have preferred.