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Anti-gunners exploiting author’s negligence and guilt in ‘gun death’ story
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“It did not appear to anyone -- including me -- that residing within my family’s weapons cache might affect my life,” author Holbert writes, telling us he spent his adolescent years around guns to the point his clothes smelled of oil, that his three brothers “own at least a dozen weapons,” and that he owns three.
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“I’m a gun owner -- but” is a typical divide-and-conquer tack used by “Link Removed” proponents to advance their agenda and to sway low information and/or just plain selfish “sport shooters” into going along with whatever infringement du jour is being presented as “common sense.” We saw this tactic employed withLink Removed and we saw it again with Link Removed. We saw it used by Link Removed. And we can expect to see it used again and again, especially by anti-gun politicians doing photo ops with shotguns.
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The point of Holbert’s missive is to relate how he shot and killed his friend en route to the Omak Stampede. The Times editors, of course, are delighted to give him space for that, because "gun deaths" play right into their agenda.
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“The driver, who worked with the county sheriff’s department, offered me his service revolver to examine,” Holbert recalls. “I turned the weapon onto its side, pointed it toward the door. The barrel, however, slipped when I shifted my grip to pull the hammer back, to make certain the chamber was empty, and turned the gun toward the driver’s seat. When I let the hammer fall, the cylinder must have rotated without my knowing. When I pulled the hammer back a second time it fired a live round.”
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"The barrel slipped ... The cylinder rotated without my knowing ... IT fired a live round..."
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For someone who acknowledges he’s the one who killed his friend, not the gun, he’s sure doing his best to absolve himself in that narrative, and further mitigates his own culpability by invoking masculinity, manhood and the mythology of guns. Blaming those concepts for his personal issues and deficiencies appears to be this guy’s shtick. Holbert appears almost desperate to convince anyone he can that the strong, silent man is a myth, and that the myth is destructive.
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“I treated a tool as an essential part of my identity, and the result is a dead man,” he concludes, leading the reader to infer that an identity crisis without guns is just an identity crisis. Why he chose to write this article may have been a matter of catharsis. But why The New York Times and Stop the NRA chose to promote it is clear.
What’s not is why seemingly cut-and-dried manslaughter charges against Holbert “were eventually dropped,” albeit it seems not unreasonable to assume that the crime being committed with a handgun assigned to an “Link Removed” may have been a factor in that decision.
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That’s not the only way he’s being given a pass, and that’s because anti-gunners are pleased to exploit his story of personal tragedy, regret and guilt to poison public sentiment against gun ownership. We’re told that two of Holbert’s currently-owned guns were gifts and one was inherited, making it fair to ask if those “universal background checks” the gun grabbers would impose on you and me were conducted. More problematic, Holbert admits to physicians and pharmacists providing him with a cocktail of drugs to tame his inner demons. Yet strangely, the Link Removed-casting antis are silent on him continuing to possess guns, content instead to use him to go after ours.
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That’s because, evidently, the only healthy man is one who is incompetent, whiny, weak and loud, who bemoans his doubts and fears for all to hear, and who downs pills to deal with his guilt and turmoil. Any other male archetype is destructive. At least that’s what those who have hijacked and inverted terms like “progressive” and “liberal” are counting on people swallowing.
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Ignorance is strength, don’t you know.
Emphasis is mine
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Anti-gunners exploiting author?s negligence and guilt in ?gun death? story - National gun rights | Examiner.com
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“It did not appear to anyone -- including me -- that residing within my family’s weapons cache might affect my life,” author Holbert writes, telling us he spent his adolescent years around guns to the point his clothes smelled of oil, that his three brothers “own at least a dozen weapons,” and that he owns three.
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“I’m a gun owner -- but” is a typical divide-and-conquer tack used by “Link Removed” proponents to advance their agenda and to sway low information and/or just plain selfish “sport shooters” into going along with whatever infringement du jour is being presented as “common sense.” We saw this tactic employed withLink Removed and we saw it again with Link Removed. We saw it used by Link Removed. And we can expect to see it used again and again, especially by anti-gun politicians doing photo ops with shotguns.
~
The point of Holbert’s missive is to relate how he shot and killed his friend en route to the Omak Stampede. The Times editors, of course, are delighted to give him space for that, because "gun deaths" play right into their agenda.
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“The driver, who worked with the county sheriff’s department, offered me his service revolver to examine,” Holbert recalls. “I turned the weapon onto its side, pointed it toward the door. The barrel, however, slipped when I shifted my grip to pull the hammer back, to make certain the chamber was empty, and turned the gun toward the driver’s seat. When I let the hammer fall, the cylinder must have rotated without my knowing. When I pulled the hammer back a second time it fired a live round.”
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"The barrel slipped ... The cylinder rotated without my knowing ... IT fired a live round..."
~
For someone who acknowledges he’s the one who killed his friend, not the gun, he’s sure doing his best to absolve himself in that narrative, and further mitigates his own culpability by invoking masculinity, manhood and the mythology of guns. Blaming those concepts for his personal issues and deficiencies appears to be this guy’s shtick. Holbert appears almost desperate to convince anyone he can that the strong, silent man is a myth, and that the myth is destructive.
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“I treated a tool as an essential part of my identity, and the result is a dead man,” he concludes, leading the reader to infer that an identity crisis without guns is just an identity crisis. Why he chose to write this article may have been a matter of catharsis. But why The New York Times and Stop the NRA chose to promote it is clear.
What’s not is why seemingly cut-and-dried manslaughter charges against Holbert “were eventually dropped,” albeit it seems not unreasonable to assume that the crime being committed with a handgun assigned to an “Link Removed” may have been a factor in that decision.
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That’s not the only way he’s being given a pass, and that’s because anti-gunners are pleased to exploit his story of personal tragedy, regret and guilt to poison public sentiment against gun ownership. We’re told that two of Holbert’s currently-owned guns were gifts and one was inherited, making it fair to ask if those “universal background checks” the gun grabbers would impose on you and me were conducted. More problematic, Holbert admits to physicians and pharmacists providing him with a cocktail of drugs to tame his inner demons. Yet strangely, the Link Removed-casting antis are silent on him continuing to possess guns, content instead to use him to go after ours.
~
That’s because, evidently, the only healthy man is one who is incompetent, whiny, weak and loud, who bemoans his doubts and fears for all to hear, and who downs pills to deal with his guilt and turmoil. Any other male archetype is destructive. At least that’s what those who have hijacked and inverted terms like “progressive” and “liberal” are counting on people swallowing.
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Ignorance is strength, don’t you know.
Emphasis is mine
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Anti-gunners exploiting author?s negligence and guilt in ?gun death? story - National gun rights | Examiner.com
