this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2026
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It's weird that we've abandoned linking to the article (which describes the killing as the result of him clumsily showing off his new glock to his daughter shortly after dinner) and defaulted to a link to an article to a screenshot of a tweet by some random internet influencers looking to stir the pot.
What is a tragedy resulting from people treating guns as toys has been rewritten as some kind of premeditated culture-war driven murder.
The killer said it was an accident and there are no living witnesses.
It is never an accident when you pick up a gun in a political argument.
If you pick up a gun and don't clear it. You are negligent.
If you point a gun at someone. You are negligent.
If you are not taking any safety precautions when handling a firearm. You are negligent.
100% this here. If you're negligent with a firearm you're responsible.
Not in Texas apparently.
Reminds me of back in the 1950's and before when getting black out drunk and running over someone was an "accident".
I phrased is like this as I know that in some situations it might be needed to pick up a gun to defend yourself from harm.
However, no political argument should ever devolve into the need for guns.
Yeah but it's not an accident
Suddenly the right will be very pro second amendment watch.
I know for sure the best time to clean my pistol is during a heated argument.
"I know we just had a fight and you went to another room to be alone, but check out my cool new gun that is loaded with the safety off and pointed in your direction!"
JFC.
Glocks don't have manual safeties.
Really? I would have assumed a safety would be required by law on all firearms post-, say, 1960 but I guess I'm not really that surprised.
As I understand it, a Glock's safety is on the trigger so it's always on unless you have your finger on the trigger.
Oh well then, in that case nothing problematic happened at all!
I think the bigger issue is neither link highlights the fact that he is facing zero consequences for any of this.
it's also fucky that the image makes claims about it happening/her dying in 2026 when it happened in 2025. might be a simple typo but I'm going to assume that whomever make the image just didn't bother to check anything
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk917xy8no