The other day, some Instapundit commenter had embedded a tweet showing a horrifying video. I considered embedding the video here as an object lesson in gun safety, but I decided not to give anyone else nightmares. So here's a description of what I saw: We see a small car and a black family that sounds as if its members are speaking an African language (I have no idea where this is happening). The right-rear door of the car is open; an adult male is sitting there, lecturing a child standing on the grass in front of him. In the adult's hands is a gun, and he's apparently telling the child about it. The man cocks the gun and hands it to the child, who looks younger than ten years old. The child says something to the adult while waving the gun about (a second adult is sitting in the car's driver seat); the waving stops, and the child points the gun straight at the adult who had been lecturing him. The adult puts out both hands and waves them back and forth in a warding gesture; the gun goes off, and the adult is hit square in the face. He falls back. The child has dropped the gun and holds his head, aghast at what's just happened. People scream and run toward the car. End clip.
This was, frankly, fucking nightmarish, but it was also absolutely preventable. Responsible adults who train (train!) their kids on how to use firearms would never have allowed a situation like this to happen, and no rational, firearm-respecting adult would ever have placed such casual trust in a young child's ability to handle a semiautomatic. The entire situation was insane, and I knew within seconds that I was about to see something awful happen. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the video's been yanked even though the bullet impact is barely visible when it happens. Did the adult survive being shot in the face? What happened in the aftermath? Part of me doesn't even want to know. Jesus Christ.
So instead of showing you that bit of ghoulish business, I've got something fun for you instead. Another commenter suggested that this might be AI, but I recall wanting to make a video like this myself years ago. I don't think the action in this video requires AI to accomplish.
Hahah Legend pic.twitter.com/737MWa0JOC
— Enezator (@Enezator) March 5, 2026
No comments:
Post a Comment
READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING!
All comments are subject to approval before they are published, so they will not appear immediately. Comments should be civil, relevant, and substantive. Anonymous comments are not allowed and will be unceremoniously deleted. For more on my comments policy, please see this entry on my other blog.
AND A NEW RULE (per this post): comments critical of Trump's lying must include criticism of Biden's or Kamala's or some prominent leftie's lying on a one-for-one basis! Failure to be balanced means your comment will not be published.