Yes, that’s how the Huffington Post tells the story of an inebriated 22-year-old Anastasia Adair in Denver the other day. Apparently, she was handing what the HuffPost calls an AK-47 (but who knows what the weapon was given the inability of the media to correctly identify any weapons and AK-47 is a catch-all phrase for scary-looking guns) back to her husband when she shot her self in the head. When she was struck by the bullet, Mrs. Adair dropped the weapon and it discharged again, hitting no one. It’s being called an accident.
Of course, the problem isn’t the gun, it’s irresponsible and untrained people handling a firearm. It probably would have happened with a bolt action, a lever action, or even a single shot rifle, but lucky for the media it was a semiautomatic rifle which killed Mrs. Adair. And semiautomatic rifle is too hard to spell, so HuffPost calls it an assault rifle to scare their readers.
They go on tell us how owning a gun makes us more likely to shoot ourselves
According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, 606 people were killed by unintentional firearm injuries in the United States in 2010.
Additionally, the advocacy site quotes a 2001 study, “Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths,” that maintains the following:
People of all age groups are significantly more likely to die from unintentional firearm injuries when they live in states with more guns, relative to states with fewer guns. On average, states with the highest gun levels had nine times the rate of unintentional firearms deaths compared to states with the lowest gun levels.
The Adairs had purchased the assault weapon at a gun show in March, according to KMGH.
Oh, good, you know they were just prancing up a storm at HuffPost when they discovered that there was a gun show involved. That made their “assault rifle” more dangerous, you know.
But let’s look at the string of mistakes the Adair family made which actually resulted in Ms. Adair’s tragic death. Alcohol was involved, obviously she wasn’t trained to handle a weapon because she had her finger on the trigger, or her husband did when she handed it to him, and the weapon was pointed her head, alcohol was involved. Yeah, I know I said it twice, because it’s twice as important. Who drags out their loaded firearms and takes that firearm off of “safe” and starts passing it around during an alcohol-saturated party? Apparently Anastasia Adair, according to an article in Denver’s ABC Channel News;
Witnesses and the husband told police the group had been drinking in the garage of the couple’s home at 10024 Elliot St. when 22-year-old Anastasia Adair, a new gun enthusiast, went upstairs to a bedroom to get her recently purchased assault rifle.
Anastasia was walking back down the stairs into the garage when she reached out to hand the rifle to her husband, Shane Adair, who was below her on the stairs. The gun fired, striking her in the head, two witnesses and the husband told police.
Again, as always, it’s not the gun, it’s the people handling guns. At least Anastasia Adair was the only one who was injured by her own carelessness.