124: Zero Brains

The author writes:
Never, ever, ever handle your firearm the way Zero is here. Never point a gun at anything or anyone you wouldn't be okay with being shot. Too many people have fallen victim to such careless handling.

Maybe this is too serious an edit: dark with no humor. But it is a message that bears repeating... even if the rifle may not.

Original Beetle Bailey strip: 2016-08-23.

Transcript
{Zero is carelessly handing his rifle with Sarge in back of him. The business end pokes Sarge, and he drops a sheet of paper in fear.} SFX: POKE Sarge: Zero! Watch it with that rifle! Zero: Sorry, Sarge, but it's not loaded. Sarge: Are you sure? {Zero decides to check the second-worst possible way, ranking right behind not only putting the end of the barrel up to his eye, as here, but also intentionally pulling the trigger.} Zero: I can't see anything! {This turns out to be prophetic, as the gun discharges.} SFX: BLAM! Sarge: Zero!!! {Blood issues forth from the back of Zero's head.}