A British woman who was shot dead by her father while visiting his home in Texas had argued with him about US President Donald Trump earlier that day, an inquest has heard.
Lucy Harrison, from Warrington in Cheshire, was shot in the chest on 10 January 2025 in Prosper, near Dallas.
Police in the town investigated the 23-year-old’s death as possible manslaughter but no criminal case was brought against Kris Harrison after a grand jury in Collin County declined to indict him.
An inquest into Lucy Harrison’s death opened earlier at Cheshire Coroner’s Court, where her boyfriend Sam Littler described the “big argument” about Trump, who was preparing to be inaugurated for his second term of office.
So, Glocks don’t have a manual safety. And dipshit amateur gun owners who don’t like a heavy trigger pull will periodically modify (or simply buy a modified) version of the weapon with a light trigger. This makes the gun easy to misfire. Add to that, the habit of paranoid owners keeping the gun loaded and chambered, because they think cocking a gun is the difference between life or death.
Very real possibility this was an accident or - at most - involuntary manslaughter on behalf of the father.
As someone who lives in Texas and knows this exact kind of person, the elements laid out in the article make it sound like this guy was a clueless, tactless asshole who thought he could just laugh and hand-wave his way through a political conversation. His daughter is dead because he was treating his gun like a toy, not because he was in some kind of heated argument over Trump.
This is at least manslaughter.
not USian is it common to show family members you’re having fights with firearms as a way to reconcile with them and accidentally killing them
Some folks just don’t get that not everyone loves guns or wants to have them around. When we visited my in-laws, my partner’s dad tried to insist he bring home his childhood guns. We lived in Massachusetts at the time, a state notorious for not handing gun permits out willy-nilly, and neither of us had a permit. Dad was like “just keep in in your car, it’ll be fine”. We drove a hatchback, we didn’t even have a locking trunk, much less a gun safe.
We did not go home with any guns on that visit.
Partner’s next visit, partner flew and his dad tried to give him guns again. Still no gun permit. Yeah, let’s fly through Logan airport with a gun in carry-on luggage. Never mind partner was flying to a third state prior to heading back to Massachusetts. Just nuts.
Yeah.
Unironically, yeah. Daughter from a very anti-gun country comes to visit, it’s practically required to drag her down to a shooting range and prove that the 2A is fun.
My father-in-law insisted I go shooting with him the moment he found out I was one of those filthy gun-grabber liberals. I managed to survive the experience because he knew how to handle the weapons from years of experience. We had a great time putting a bunch of holes in paper targets, ended the night with a beer, and the whole time I got an earful of “See? See? Guns are great! You should be pro-guns!”
conflicted about how to feel about this because i’d probably be a gun nut if I was USian but probably not for the same reasons as the average republican
Haven’t done it in at least a month or two.
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