Friday, 30 December 2016

Handgun discharges, killing Press Herald columnist M.D. Harmon at his home

quote [ The champion of conservative viewpoints was showing the weapon to a teenage visitor when it went off as the boy handled it, police say.
...
Harmon, a steadfast defender of gun rights and a champion of conservative viewpoints, was a longtime editor and columnist for the Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He worked for the newspaper for 41 years, and continued to write a weekly column after he retired in 2011.
...Harmon wrote that he had belonged to the National Rifle Association from the day of his first paycheck. ]

The picture of a responsible gun owner.

"handgun discharges", "it went off as the boy handled it"
This passive voice "shit-happens" description of somebody shooting another person to death.

Not dystopian violence - mundane violence.


#gun tragedy
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[by HoZay]
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maximumtodd said @ 9:57pm GMT on 1st January
I don't know about smarter, but I did grow up in South Dakota, where you could go hunting at 14 if you had taken the hunter safety course, so most of my friends did. Also, most of the people I hang out with spent at least some time in the military where we received firearms training.

maximumtodd said @ 10:05pm GMT on 1st January
I don't know about smarter, but I did grow up in South Dakota, where you could go hunting at 14 if you had taken the hunter safety course, so most of my friends did. Also, most of the people I hang out with spent at least some time in the military where we received firearms training. I remember the first time I handed a rifle to my wife, who is from the Netherlands. I quickly found myself looking down the end of a barrel. It was only then that I realized that she had probably never held a firearm before. We had a talk and I took her to the range. She now owns a Walther P99 and is a better shot than me.


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maximumtodd said @ 9:57pm GMT on 1st January
I don't know about smarter, but I did grow up in South Dakota, where you could go hunting at 14 if you had taken the hunter safety course, so most of my friends did. Also, most of the people I hang out with spent at least some time in the military where we received firearms training. I remember the first time I handed a rifle to my wife, who is from the Netherlands. I quickly found myself looking down the end of a barrel. It was only then that I realized that she had probably never held a firearm before. We had a talk and I took her to the range. She now owns a Walther P99 and is a better shot than me.



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