Families of Sandy Hook massacre victims say Remington bankruptcy intentionally leaves them in the cold [More]
I feel sorry for their losses up until the point they use them as an excuse to attack rights, and then they primarily become a force that needs to be repelled, their reasoning being secondary. I haven't been close enough to this case to know who is bankrolling it, but I'm hoping everyone involved loses his shirt.
[Via Steve T]
I'm trying to imagine how I would be holding a Remington M700 in order to fatally shoot myself while trying to unload same.
ReplyDeleteThe game "Twister" somehow comes to mind.
Wow. this Teague case is a howler. No pound of flesh being sought here, that's for sure.
ReplyDelete"Remington had argued that Mark Teague’s death was unwitnessed and that his parents, Sharon and Randall Teague, could not allege that his particular rifle discharged on its own. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula, however, said on Thursday that even assuming there are gaps in the Teagues’ complaint, “common sense” is all that is needed to fill them."
Let's read the description of the death from the actual court filing, and see what "common sense" tells us:
"At 6:30 a.m. on the morning of November 3, 2015, 16-year-old Mark Teague was awakened by his mother, Sharon. Mark's father, Randy, found Mark dozing in a chair in the living room shortly afterward. Randy greeted his son and said, "It's time to wake up and get ready for school." Mark "responded as he always did."
"Randy went to the bathroom to brush his teeth. He heard a loud noise and, thinking that something large had fallen, walked into the living room to investigate. Mark was in the same chair he had been sitting in minutes earlier, his Remington Model 700 bolt action hunting rifle between his knees. The sound Randy had heard was the rifle firing—Mark had suffered a massive gunshot wound to the face and head, and he was dead. The investigating coroner classified the death as suicide."
"The family had strict rules about firearm storage and handling, but Mark apparently failed to unload the rifle when he came home on November 1. The Teagues allege that Mark remembered that his gun was still loaded on the morning of November 3. They claim that the gun went off on its own as Mark attempted to unload it."
So then:
"TIme to get ready for school!"
"I think I'll unload my gun first, by holding it between my knees with the muzzle in my face."