Responsible gun owner/prominent 2nd Amendment “gun rights” advocate Jon Holzwarth was babysitting his three-year-old son and his neighbor’s four-year-old grandson when a totally responsible thing happened: his son somehow was shot in the mouth. Imagine that:
According to Snohomish County deputies, the shooting happened in a bedroom that was locked. Holzwarth told them he heard a loud boom and ran to the bedroom where his son, Michael, and his neighbor’s 4-year-old grandson were playing. He forced the locked door open and initially thought his son had gotten hurt that way. At Providence Everett Medical Center, doctors discovered the boy had been shot in the mouth. He was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. No one answered at Holzwarth’s door where a sign reads: “We don’t dial 9-1-1″ with a metal cutout of a pistol dangling below. There were also emblems about guns on his Jeep. On Saturday, his son was struggling to survive from a gunshot wound — a tragic irony not lost on his neighbor.Oh, yes. The irony. I’m sure Holzwarth’s guns protected his family dozens and dozens of times before this tragic incident, though.