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Our Own Worst Enemies

There are so many anti-gunners out there just waiting to say, "Gotcha!". It bugs me no end when someone on our side of the argument forgets every rule of gun safety and helps them out:

Emily Boone was just hoping for a good grade in her Ball State University video class when she was recording an interview with a gun store owner. But what happened during the session would earn her an Emmy.

Boone was interviewing the Yorktown shop owner about gun safety when he started talking about a gun he had built. While he was holding the weapon with the camera pointing at him, he pulled the trigger. To his surprise, the gun fired, and the bullet missed Boone by less than 3 feet.

"I was like, 'It was loaded? It was loaded? It was loaded!' " Boone told RTV6's Jennifer Carmack. "I was just in shock, really, at first."

Boone took the video back to her professor, Jim Shasky.

"We were screening the raw footage for the story. When I saw that, I almost fell off my chair in the classroom," Shasky said.

Shasky saw in the video more than a class project. He decided it should be a public service announcement.

The produced product shows the store owner holding the gun and talking about the weapon. A font identifies him as a gun expert and gun shop owner.

When the gun fires, the man looks surprised. Two more messages appear on the screen: "Even Experts Make Mistakes" and "Make gun safety your business."

The video won an Emmy.