New York Times Leaves Out Huge Chunk Of New Gun Owner’s Story to Preach Anti-2A Message

Earlier in 2026 a sub-Reddit called “r/liberalgunowners,” saw one user provide an update after describing a harrowing incident at home – but a New York Times columnist elected to leave out a large part of the story to deliver an anti-gun ownership spiel.

In the screenshot of the initial post on Reddit posted on X on March 2, according to BizPacReview, the user explained how his partner had purchased a Glock pistol “for self-defense as the federal government does fascist things in our community.” The Reddit user apparently provided additional updates later in the thread, based on another screenshot posted on X.

The Reddit user, who was familiar with rifles and shotguns, had no familiarity with the pistol, which makes what happened not very surprising, but still shocking. Per the original post, the Reddit user’s partner had an “accidental discharge” while practicing loading the gun and racking the slide, due to giving in to a “compulsion” to pull the trigger, putting a hole in the wall of the house the two shared with their cats.

Now, thankfully, no residents of the house, either human or feline, were injured as a result of the gun being fired. After the incident where the bullet made a hole in a wall, the Reddit user insisted that the partner never load the gun with live rounds in the house and took custody of the pistol.

In the updates, the user reported the partner both started therapy for PTSD and took a long-overdue professional training course for the firearm and has since been to a range multiple times, stuff that should have happened long before that “accidental discharge” took place. All in all, this story is something those exercising their Second Amendment rights should view as a close call leading to someone becoming a responsible firearms owner.