Without a hint of irony, the Star headlined its Sunday coverage of the lethal Shawnee Mission shoot-out, “Shawnee gun shop co-owner is remembered as a gentle giant and a loving husband.”
The editors apparently do not understand that “gentle giant” has become the punch line of a dark, ongoing joke since the media used that label to celebrate the life of aspiring thug Michael Brown, late of Ferguson, Missouri.
Alleged Shawnee gun store robbery suspect Hakeem Malik
The fact that Brown roughed up a store clerk half his size and then punched a police officer in the face–and this just in the last half hour of his life–did nothing to diminish the media’s enthusiasm for this archetypal “unarmed teen.”
Rich Steele is a citizen journalist and head of the NSAAS (Non-Smokers Against Anti-Smoking).
you j**off…one was a perpetrator of violence (according to the grand jury)..
another was a lawabiding/family man/protector of the innocent/and you
still write this crap.
hearne…get rid ofthis phony mf’er!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gentle Giant was a progressive rock band of the 70s.
That’s the only meaning I have with the term.
So what violent felonies did this ‘gentle giant’ perpetrate?
I’m still laughing at the name of the place …. ‘She’s a Pistol’. Can this story get any funnier?
I assume you checked out the logo of the sexy, packing cowgirl…
Not exactly a safety themed image.
Can sex sell guns and ammo? I can’t think of two things that should be further apart.
BANG! BANG!
I keep thinking I remember a TV show with that name. Maybe I’m remembering Gentle Ben. Which, then, actually makes me think if that wasn’t the name of some pet rat or mouse Michael Jackson had, or a song title or something…
(mike, ‘this’ is your brain. ‘this’ is your brain on drugs…
One of the largest demographics of gun owners happens to be women. “She’s a pistol” is exactly the niche market they were going for and it was successful.
However if Hearne were to put the sign out it would read: “Rob me I won’t do anything”.
Jack Springer you win the prize for Douche Nozzle of the week!
“I’m still laughing at the name of the place …. ‘She’s a Pistol’. Can this story get any funnier?”
Because nothing says hilarity like a guy getting murdered in his place of business. If that guy happens to be white, conservative and a Christian, that’s the trifecta! But enough of the booooring reality of lives destroyed..
Tell him what he won…… (in my best Don Pardo )
Jack you’ll be whisked away to trendy Lawrence Kansas in an eco friendly electric car! You’ll be joined for an all expense paid dinner by Hearne Christopher! You’ll be served
a gluten free , conflict free, free range meal of some tasteless crap that passes for food among the local lumber jack bearded Lawrence hipsters. After dinner you’ll get to go throw organic tomatoes at a group of Methodists ! So congratulations Jack Springer, the first ever KCC Douche Nozzle of The Week! You earned it ass hat.
You don’t have a sense of humor man. I’ve never been to the place but trying to sell guns and ammo by making it sexual is not a good marketing plan. I’m not sure he was a conservative … seems pretty liberal to me. If he was a Christian, the idea of mating sex and guns doesn’t seem like something a Christian would do.
I’m sorry the guy died … .but he lived by the sword.
I’ve got nothing against guns but never saw the fascination of having dozens of them in my home.
You can keep your award Shower Boy . . . . . I try to stay away from Kansas as much as I can.
Honest question….I’ve always interpreted “live by the sword, die by the sword” to mean “live by violence, die by violence”.
Is owning/running/working in a gun store a violent occupation?
It thought he would be whisked away in a Fiat.
Wah waaaaaaaaah.