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Earlier in 2026 a sub-Reddit called \u201cr\/liberalgunowners,\u201d saw one user provide an update after describing a harrowing incident at home \u2013 but a New York Times columnist elected to leave out a large part of the story to deliver an anti-gun ownership spiel.<\/p>\n

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In the screenshot of the initial post on Reddit posted on X on March 2, according to BizPacReview, the user explained how his partner had purchased a Glock pistol \u201cfor self-defense as the federal government does fascist things in our community.\u201d The Reddit user apparently provided additional updates later in the thread, based on another screenshot posted on X. (RELATED: New York Times Article May Be Cited In Every Legal Challenge To Semi-Auto Bans From Now On)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Reddit user, who was familiar with rifles and shotguns, had no familiarity with the pistol, which makes what happened not very surprising, but still shocking. Per the original post, the Reddit user\u2019s partner had an \u201caccidental discharge\u201d while practicing loading the gun and racking the slide, due to giving in to a \u201ccompulsion\u201d to pull the trigger, putting a hole in the wall of the house the two shared with their cats.<\/p>\n

Now, thankfully, no residents of the house, either human or feline, were injured as a result of the gun being fired. After the incident where the bullet made a hole in a wall, the Reddit user insisted that the partner never load the gun with live rounds in the house and took custody of the pistol.<\/p>\n

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In the updates, the user reported the partner both started therapy for PTSD and took a long-overdue professional training course for the firearm and has since been to a range multiple times, stuff that should have happened long before that \u201caccidental discharge\u201d took place. All in all, this story is something those exercising their Second Amendment rights should view as a close call leading to someone becoming a responsible firearms owner.<\/p>\n

But that is not how New York Times \u201cEthicist\u201d Kwame Anthony Appiah, a philosophy professor at New York University, saw it. In his column, a truncated version of the Reddit post omitting the updates about the training and range visits was used as the question, which led to an all-too-familiar predictable response.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlongside your partner\u2019s worrisome compulsion, it would appear, is a perplexing belief system. How, exactly, does she believe that owning a handgun will help her or others in your community fend off the government\u2019s actions?\u201d Appiah wrote. \u201cYou say you want her to retain the security the gun provides, and yet her sense of security comes at a cost to her actual security.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cStates with higher household gun ownership have higher rates of fatal law-enforcement shootings, especially of people who were armed with guns,\u201d Appiah continued. \u201cPacking heat doesn\u2019t protect you from state power; it increases your odds of being its victim.\u201d<\/p>\n

I can think of a lot of minutemen who could argue quite the opposite after April 19, 1775, for starters, and if you want to discuss being a victim of state violence, constitutional scholar Stephen Halbrook has described in multiple articles how British troops seized and destroyed firearms during the occupation of Boston after the Boston Tea Party and what happened as a result.<\/p>\n

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Appiah, though, doesn\u2019t stop there, but makes the user\u2019s partner the villain of the story for buying the Glock in the first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the very least, the question of whether there should be a gun in a home should be subject to deliberation and consent, not something one party imposes on the other,\u201d Appiah wrote. \u201cYour partner ought to provide you with a cogent explanation of why she wants a gun in the first place. The disquiet you feel is justified. Why should her sense of security be maintained at the expense of yours?\u201d (RELATED: Pro-Second Amendment Orgs Planning To Inflict Legal Pain On Blue State Over \u2018Terrifying\u2019 Anti-Gun Bill)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be honest, the user and the partner made some major mistakes before, during and after the purchase of the Glock that could have led to a tragedy. They are lucky that only a wall was shot, and not a living, breathing occupant of the house.<\/p>\n

At the very least, the user should have known that loading and practicing with live ammunition in the house was not in keeping with the rules of firearms safety \u2013 even without any experience with handguns \u2013 and should have conveyed that to the human in the house who\u2019d purchased the Glock.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, they deserve a bit of a lecture regarding the \u201caccidental discharge\u201d resulting from the \u201ccompulsion\u201d to pull the trigger, but their actions did not warrant the lecture Appiah gave them.<\/p>\n

To be fair, we don\u2019t know if Appiah saw the Reddit threads, if the partial story printed was the sum total of what he received or any other context. We\u2019ve asked him for comment, and we\u2019ll certainly let you know what he says \u2013 if he gets back to us.<\/p>\n

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