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Tragic news from Montana today. Gregory Rodriguez, the host of Sportsman Channel‘s A Rifleman’s Journal, was shot and killed by the husband of a woman he was visiting, the Associated Press reports. The shooter apparently beat his wife and, after taking his 2-year old son to a relative, drove to his home and shot himself in the head. In addition to his work on the Sportsman Channel, Rodriguez was CEO of Global Adventure Outfitters, editor of Shooting Times Magazine, and a contributing editor of Petersen’s Hunting, Guns & Ammo. The news is a sad coda to a post I wrote in January citing an excellent report in Reuters. It shed some light on the media forces that influence the national debate by describing how the National Rifle Association either produces or sponsors programs on cable’s Sportsman Channel and Outdoor Channel. That information was newly relevant as national attention focused on policies that might reduce gun violence following the school shootings in Newtown, Conn.
Gunman Kills The Host Of Sportsman Channel’s ‘A Rifleman’s Journal’
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Sad story, but ironic that guns were the culprit here…
Adultery is the culprit here. You don’t mess with another man’s wife.
You’re right, it was totally justified, not at all a moronic statement.
In NRAWorld, if you have coffee with a woman, her husband may murder you. If he uses a gun, of course.
Cheating has been a dangerous sport since pretty much the beginning of time for all parties involved.
Tragic and yet another example of a country gone wild with guns. But alas, they’re out there and I imagine the goverrnment will once again maintain its inertia while pretending to do something actually concrete to address this issue.
Yeah. In any other country, the weapon would have been a blunt object or a knife. Would that make you feel any better?
Guys with guns.
Not entirely sure you understand what “ironic” means…
Don’t be such a smarty pants if you’re not going to correctly use the commenting system. That said, I agree that too many people use the word “ironic” for the wrong reasons.
When guns are outlawed… they’ll be less gun and less people will get shot, like in every other friggin’ developed country in the world.
No other country in the world is anything like America. Outlawing guns will do nothing to prevent gun crimes. Not here. To think otherwise is wishful.
Oh, right, because the guns will cease to exist, right? Criminals that use guns to commit violent crimes will start to think to themselves, “WAIT! I’m not going to murder this person because guns are illegal.” Makes PERFECT SENSE that a person whom has no problem breaking the law prohibiting murder would obey the law outlawing possession of an illegal firearm. PERFECT. SENSE.
Jesus, you lefties have a tough time with…well, really everything from a cognitive standpoint. Carry on commenting, though. Everyone should see how laughably illogical you all are.
I like how at the end there you preemptively attack any future disagreement on your post, like you’re the last word on the subject. “Some guy” is right about there not being as many people shot by guns in developed countries where guns are illegal or restricted. Those are the facts. And your really shouldn’t be criticizing anyone’s cognitive abilities when your arguments are based on emotion and fear of what *could* happen rather than what is happening right now.
“‘Some guy’ is right about there not being as many people shot by guns in developed countries where guns are illegal or restricted.”
Explain Switzerland then? Or the state of Vermont?
And explain the high murder rates of Honduras and Mexico?
Maybe this will help answer your question (hint: cookmeyer1970 is right):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/14/chart-the-u-s-has-far-more-gun-related-killings-than-any-other-developed-country/
Switzerland has lower percentages of gun ownership than America, AND requires all adult male citizens to serve in the militia and reserve. And Vermonters probably have greater critical thinking skills since they don’t teach their children that evolution is a liberal myth and that Jesus rode around on a velociraptor.
Maybe we should start the process by simply outlawing “murder,” because then everybody will… Oh… wait a sec…
Would you have been happier if he had stabbed the guy to death? Or beat him to death with a hammer? Both, btw, are used in more murders than rifles. Maybe the real issue is don’t go screwing around with someone else’s wife.
Nope sorry the hammer thing is utter dogcrap and is a garbage gun nut “talking point” that some whack job said somewhere in some dark corner of the Internet and now every gun nut with an Internet connection repeats it as if it has some semblance to fact or connection to life on planet earth. But it doesn’t, it’s whack job garbage people repeat when they don’t have anything else to say and can’t be bothered with actual facts.
No, the statistic he cited is, in fact, true, rendering your whinging, fallacious diatribe moot.
Actually the statistic is utter bullcrap. Deaths by firearms outnumber deaths by blunt objects 16:1. Here are the statistics per Snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/baseballbats.asp
Thank you for bringing some actual information to the discussion, but I fear facts are lost on these people. They ACTUALLY believe that 40,000 Americans are killed each year with hammers. They are living in a fact-free sphere that’s not really on planet earth.
sounds like a crime of passion.
Live by the gun die by the gun. Bye.
Imagine if someone said that about one of your family members. You are a bad person.
Sounds like a redneck A&E reality show to me!
Sorry but peoples obsession with guns and easy access to them
and their great need to have MANY of them is bad news.
They live by their guns and they die by their beloved guns.
They call hunting a sport and kill innocent animals
all the time.
Yeah but they taste so good.
You better be a vegan if that’s how you really feel
You people are morons. This isn’t about guns. Do some f’in homework. More people die from hammers and other things u idiots. Stop buying into the anti gun propaganda.
Please see the comments earlier in the thread on this steaming pile of junk argument. Anyone who seriously thinks fewer Americans are killed with guns than by hammers needs to get whacked in the head with a hammer. C’mon people, think.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-20
If by hammers and other things you mean hammers and cancer you may have a point. But if you mean by hammers and other construction equipment well then you are just an ignorant moron. And I’m from a hunting family. You idiots who need an AK 47 to kill Bambi or need anything other than a shotgun to protect your home are the reason I’m even willing to let the 2nd amendment go the way of the dinosaur. You’re doing more harm than good so shut up so real gamesmen can keep their guns. And BTW the cops looking for Dorner in L.A. fired over 100 shots at two women delivering newspapers. Not sure what was more surprising about that. That the professionals overreacted or that the two women LIVED. That’s the trained people, I’d prefer you well regulated militia types leave your toys at home.
Oddly it seems kind of okay like he works with guns and he knows the risk and loves that life style so I whenever I hear a fun lover nut gets killed by guns I think meh. Comes with the territory. Not like they care about the kids in sandy hook.
Do you understand that if a confrontation has two guns instead of one the chances of somebody getting shot go up astronomically? And I am a gun owner.
Owning a gun for self defense just increases the chance of a shooting and a death. Do you understand why? Instead of just repeating the nonsense about criminals will still have guns?
Poetic justice. If you go to his website you see the guy smugly bear-hugging a beautiful leopard he hunted and killed. The cat’s bigger than he is, only the poor thing didn’t have a gun and a thirst to kill humans for sport. I’m no animal nut, but I found the attitude Rodriguez displays in the photo to be incredibly arrogant.
And now HE is the one that has been hunted…by a dude with a gun who didn’t like Rodriguez sniffing around his wife. I guess there is balance in The Force after all.
Here’s a factoid from World War 2. Yeah,world war 2 for you zealot gun control freaks out there. U want to know why Japan didn’t invade the United States? Becouse the citizens were armed. That simple. Everytime a democrat is in office they always go for the 2nd Amdemenent. Why not look at all those bodyguard these Senators,Reps for gun control have and celebrities who made them more equal than the rest of us?
Why not look at the causes of a murder before jumping to emotional conclusions. And some people I believe are sick in tired of hearing about gun control,local democrats playing control freaks in an effort to disarm the citienery.
Hey, chuck — congrats on being the stupidest person in the world. There were other people in the running, but your spelling of citizenry really clinched it. There’s not much in the way of statuettes or cash prizes, but you can wake up every morning with the satisfaction of knowing that there is literally no one on earth with a dumber explanation of why Japan didn’t invade the US during WWII. It’s you, buddy — you’re the King of Right Wing Gun Nut Stupidity.
Bud have you really studied history? Especially World War two which my late grandfather served in by the way. Calling me names doesn’t serve no purpose it just shows how high schoolish and inmature you’re acting. And I seriously doubt you studied the whole history of world war two, the nazis, Japanesee Interment Camps under FDR,the battle of Britian I might add and D-Day.
I suspect Japan not invading the U.S. during WW2 had more to do with the 5,000 miles of ocean separating the two.
FUCK ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE, GIRLFRIEND? Deserve to get shot. Funny thing? Wasn’t for reality tv b.s.? This idiot wouldn’t been popular enough for this other woman to get with him. Now why doesn’t this happen to the majority of HWD male agents, producers, suits who, because of their positions of power…chase after other women who aren’t their own wives and girlfriends? Could you imagine how much better the HWD business would be without these cheaters / adulterers? Oh well…just saying…
One less gun owner on the planet.
Two less gun owners on the planet. I feel safer already.
it ain’t cool to meet up with another mans wife,no matter what the intent..there’s a lot of fellers out there that will do what this cuckolded husband did..i don’t agree that it is the right solution but a lot of husbands will blow your brains out..just saying.