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Who trained these assholes? And can we get them to train more of them?
Rhodes? What's his name, the Oath Keepers guy, with the eyepatch that got pardoned for sedition, stewart rhodes. He taught firearm safety, and during a class he shot himself in the eye, it's on video, I saw it on social media once but it's not findable by searching somehow he must have suppressed it somehow.
I don't know if Rhodes actually trained ICE goons (though it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was the case to some extent), but I do want to chime in with Rhodes' son and ex-wife explaining how Stewart lost his eye.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fGhCwSlOJeI
Basically, in 1991, he was either taking his mom's old .22 derringer, to give it to his friend, a crack dealer, and he at one point dropped the gun, looked at it, it fired into his eye...
...which on its own would be illegally transferring an unregistered firearm to a convicted felon...
... Or, what the ex-wife and son surmise, is that he was actually running security for a drug deal, and then dropped the gun, it fired into his eye.
Either way, he had a prosthetic eye from '91 onward, and then... well according to the son and ex wife, at some point, he just stopped cleaning it, his eye socket got infected, ruptured, he never bothered to get it fully surgically repaired to the point it could accept/fit a prosthetic eye, and just started wearing an eye patch.
... I will note that his ex wife mentions that Stewart had a habit of trying to palm small concealable pistols, basically as a magician will palm various props in a magic show routine.
A fair number of older .22 derringers do not have trigger guards, so... in my opinion, it could be the case that he tried to palm such a derringer, and, not accounting for the lack of a trigger guard, actually did literally pull the trigger (within the folds of his palm) and directly shot himself in the face.
While I have no idea what the specific model of derringer was, here is an example of what I am talking about:
As you can see, no trigger guard.
If you tried to palm such a weapon, you probably could negligently discharge it fairly easily.
Anyway, there are at least a few kind of viral videos of firearms safety instructors aciddentally firing a weapon or shooting themself that go back to the earlier days of the internet... I don't know that any of those were Stewart Rhodes, though.
It would make sense that anybody with a video like that of themselves floating around would try to get it scrubbed, or it could be taken down due to depicting violence/gore...
So my guess would be that yes you have seen videos like what you describe... yes they are harder to find these days, but, it might not have been Rhodes in them.
No, I'm almost positive Rhodes lost it teaching gun safety, because it's on video, circulated on reddit a few years back but it disappeared. We watched an overhead security camera's view of him shooting himself in the eye accidently. Somewhere in california if memory serves.
I was joking about him training Ice. I should've been more clear.
... Well, watch the video I linked, his son and ex-wife disagree with you, they say he lost his eye in ~~'91~~ '93, not teaching firearm safety, but instead in the above scenario.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Rhodes
Where citations 7 and 11 are New York Times and Los Angeles Times articles that cite Tasha Adams, the Rhodes' ex wife.
But I did make a mistake, this happened in '93, not '91.
If you can't provide the video, I'm going with you remembered it wrong, or maybe a different video of an instructor shooting themself was just labelled as being Rhodes.
And I am also not joking about Rhodes training ICE goons.
He's literally the exact kind of person who would be eager to do so, and he could probably easily get a job doing that, either officially or as basically a contractor.
I can't provide any evidence that he has, but like I said, it would not surprise me at all.
It's possible I remembered it wrong or have the wrong person, I'm quite sure I don't have it wrong but I've thought that before and been wrong. Unfortunately I couldn't find the video when I looked for it before. It's not a freely circulating video I think it gets removed.
Pretty sure I'm right though, and the Times is garbage as far as I'm concerned they traded their credibility, what remained of it. I trust the video of it happening more but I don't care enough to search for it on enshitified search engines that no longer try to find what I'm asking for. At least now when I'm procrastinating starting to work maybe later.
I think it is not entirely the fault of who ever is training them, but the one who gave them too little time to train them, there is only so much you can do in little time