Although this case may appear in GunFAIL LXVIII, it may be worth a moment's sorrowful remembrance for another gun owner moving from the 'responsible' column over to 'arrested for homicide.' Well, that or the 11-year-old boy who nobly sacrificed all of his rights and liberties so that the rest of America's innocents can enjoy their gun rights. For as long as that lasts.
The tree of liberty says please stop, it's drowning...
Sorry, Hunter, society has failed you utterly
Wonkette didn't break the story, but in some respects it was broken to start with, eh?
The shooting occurred while the boy was visiting the Delaware Township home of his grandfather; the boy’s uncle, Chad Olm, lives in the home’s basement. He happily complied when the boy asked him to show him his gun collection, so Olm opened his gun safe — so secure! — and showed off several handguns to the nephew and to his own son. He insisted that he did not store the guns loaded, because he is of course a responsible gun owner. He allowed the boys to handle three definitely unloaded handguns, then pulled out a Glock 27 .40-caliber handgun so he could show off the laser sight. Olm told police that while the gun didn’t have a magazine in it, he didn’t check to see whether a round was in the chamber, because come on, he knows very well that he doesn’t store his guns loaded.
A heartwarming tale of a pair of boys becoming men, sharing in the time-honored tradition of handling lethal weapons irresponsibly. What could possibly go wrong? What indeed. This is America. Unfortunately, you know where this is going.
After shining the laser sight on the walls and ceiling, he pointed it at his nephew’s forehead, and one of the boys said, “Look, you have a red dot on your forehead.” The nephew reached for the gun, Olm pulled the trigger, and it turned out that Olm is now no longer a responsible gun owner, but that’s no reason to question the wisdom of the Second Amendment, because shit happens and no other responsible gun owner would ever be so foolish as to show off a gun without checking the chamber, or to point a gun at an eleven-year-old boy, until the next fucking time this happens and we all are reminded that the important thing is that the Government needs to be kept in check by an armed citizenry who will secure the blessings of liberty for our children, at least the surviving ones.
So that's one family who have paid the ultimate sacrifice on the altar of profit for gun manufacturers, and one kid who didn't get shot in the head, he managed to survive, albeit scarred for life. And the shooter is cooling his heels in jail because no one's bailed him out (
yet). Perhaps some righteous gun-owners group will look upon poor Chad Olm kindly, and give him back the precious gift of freedom that the tyrannical gov't has so ruthlessly taken away.
Police arrested Olm on charges of criminal homicide, recklessly endangering another person and endangering the welfare of children. He was being held at Pike County Correctional Facility in lieu of bail.
WNEP identified the boy as Hunter Pedersen, a fifth grader in the Wallenpaupack Area School District. Counselors were expected to be available to talk to students during Monday classes.
Yeah, grief counseling. Good to be prepared, I guess. Hope they have enough open time on their schedule to spare. What a way to end that school year. That generation of kids will need watching. We owe it to them to try to help them grow up proper, in spite of gun violence.
Leave it to Wonkette, of course, to recognize the true victims of this crime.
Remember folks, it's a magazine, not a clip
The guns.
Those poor, innocent guns. Won't somebody please think of the children? Er, guns?
The fate of his precious, precious guns has yet to be determined, but we’re betting that plenty of responsible gun owners will volunteer to give them a good, safe home.
Moral of the story...moral? Oh, who am I kidding! If you ever find yourself in such a situation where someone says to you, "look, you have a red dot on your forehead," in Thoth's name
don't reach for them. Consider...I don't know, ducking. Or back slowly away, or beg them to spare your life, or...something else. Do nothing to alarm YARGO, aka yet another responsible gun owner. Don't trigger the gun grabber(!) reflex, that's the NRA training.
It's not fun anymore, okay? They're not toys. And the oopsies can do more to an innocent American's rights and liberties than stronger gun laws ever could.
Poor kid.