Mike McIntire

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Fresh Air · The forces that shape gun culture · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

The bullets resembled small missiles.

I took the rifle when my parents were away, and I opened up the back window of the house, and I fired a shot into the woods.

And I disposed the shell casing and stashed the gun away.

I mean, I was lucky not to have killed someone.

These bullets fired from that particular gun can travel miles before it hits something.

I bring these up in the book, you know, in the context of how easy it is, I think, for accidental shootings to happen, especially with kids and the sort of magnetic attraction that boys have to these things.

I mean, I knew better than this.

My father had taught me to be respectful and responsible with guns, but I went ahead and did it anyways.

And so when I found myself years later writing about accidental shootings with kids...

This kind of informed my thinking.

I knew these things happened a lot based on my own experience.

And in fact, my colleague and I at the New York Times ended up doing a story showing that they happened about twice as many times as people think, as the official records show.

Because many homicides and many shootings involving children are misrecorded as homicides and not accidental homicides.

So there are a number of things that I sort of tried to bring to bear in my own personal life that I think were useful in explaining these more abstract issues in the book.

Yeah, I was, as an adult, and I now have about, I have four guns now as an adult.

And I taught my own kids how to shoot.

I think when you, you know, become a grown-up, especially a parent, you do have, you look at these things in a different way.

Or you should.

And I did.

But I think, you know, one of the points I want to make is that I'm sure my father did too.

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