Wait, Guns Do Kill People?
Last July, William DeHayes was practicing some innocent gun-slinging tricks in his kitchen in Brooksville,
Florida, when he accidentally shot Katherine Hoover, the wife of his old friend, point blank in the temple as she sat eating at the kitchen table. Ms. Hoover was five months pregnant at the time, and doctors tried in vain to save both her and her fetus, a boy she had named Rehlin.
The medical examiner ruled the deaths homicides, but Mr. DeHayes will not face any charges in the case. Why not? The state attorney, Brad King, said there was no evidence Mr. DeHayes “had a careless or reckless indifference to the safety of the victims when the firearm discharged,” according to The Daily Beast.
Mr. DeHayes clearly feels very bad about what happened. In an interview with the local sheriff, he said, “I haven’t slept in three days trying to figure out how the hell [the gun] went off. I don’t know. I mean them damn guns. The shotgun goes off when it wants to. I almost blew my damn head off twice.”
Since the National Rifle Association has repeatedly confirmed that guns do not, in fact, kill people, who is responsible for the deaths of Ms. Hoover and her unborn son?