• hector@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    No, I’m almost positive Rhodes lost it teaching gun safety, because it’s on video, circulated on reddit a few years back but it disappeared. We watched an overhead security camera’s view of him shooting himself in the eye accidently. Somewhere in california if memory serves.

    I was joking about him training Ice. I should’ve been more clear.

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      1 month ago

      … Well, watch the video I linked, his son and ex-wife disagree with you, they say he lost his eye in '91 '93, not teaching firearm safety, but instead in the above scenario.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Rhodes

      Rhodes married Tasha Adams in 1994 after meeting her a few years earlier in Las Vegas.[46][7] When they met, Adams was 18 years old and working at an Arthur Murray Dance studio, and Rhodes was a 25-year-old college student.[11] Adams worked as an exotic dancer to financially support Rhodes’ education during their marriage.[11] Before their marriage, Rhodes accidentally shot himself in the face with a .22 handgun after dropping it, leaving him using a prosthetic eyeball.[7][11]

      Where citations 7 and 11 are New York Times and Los Angeles Times articles that cite Tasha Adams, the Rhodes’ ex wife.

      But I did make a mistake, this happened in '93, not '91.

      If you can’t provide the video, I’m going with you remembered it wrong, or maybe a different video of an instructor shooting themself was just labelled as being Rhodes.

      And I am also not joking about Rhodes training ICE goons.

      He’s literally the exact kind of person who would be eager to do so, and he could probably easily get a job doing that, either officially or as basically a contractor.

      I can’t provide any evidence that he has, but like I said, it would not surprise me at all.

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        It’s possible I remembered it wrong or have the wrong person, I’m quite sure I don’t have it wrong but I’ve thought that before and been wrong. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the video when I looked for it before. It’s not a freely circulating video I think it gets removed.

        Pretty sure I’m right though, and the Times is garbage as far as I’m concerned they traded their credibility, what remained of it. I trust the video of it happening more but I don’t care enough to search for it on enshitified search engines that no longer try to find what I’m asking for. At least now when I’m procrastinating starting to work maybe later.