Tragic and stupid mistake
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Jon-Erik Hexum
filmbuff-63 — 20 years ago(January 20, 2006 12:20 PM)
In another obituary written shortly after JEH's death it said he put the gun to his head and said, "Let's see if there's one in there for me," before pulling the trigger.
Not much later JEH's mother began her own crusade against hand guns.
Now I felt bad for her, I still do. His death was completely senseless. He was a rising star on a show that was showing potential. At that time I was writing television reviews and picked "Cover Up" as a show to keep your eye on. But tell me, who is responsible for his death?
Nobody made this poor man put the gun to his head. If you work with blank firing pistols at all you know that they can be dangerous. If you watch most films the guns are almost never pointed directly at another human being. They are always slightly off.
Jon-Erik Hexum's death was a tragic but stupid mistake, and there's no one to blame but himself. I know that sounds harsh, even 22 years later, but it's the truth. Handguns are not sentient things and they do not do things by themselves. They are not even being controled by the sorceror's apprentice. Too often they are in the hands of people who do not take care to behave properly with them.
Then they are most dangerous.
I shall owe thee an answer for that -
Jack_1515 — 20 years ago(January 30, 2006 04:49 PM)
The studio effects guys should have had all stage-weapons secured between shots and not available for actors to play around with, so the studio has some liability there as well.
Handguns are dangerous and have only one purpose to their design, to kill human beings (while they are used for hunting, they are not weapons with which someone hunting for food would use on a regular basis). So, its hard to think of many circumstances, outside law enforcement and military use only, where one behaves properly with a weapon whose design is soley to kill a human. Considering that 99.9% of all human beings are in fact idiots it is difficult for me to support the sales of a weapon to the general public based on the hope that only the .1% of the population who are not idiots will be the only ones to buy handguns.
But, I tell you whatif you don't feed off the senseless death of an entertainer to make a political grandstand to somehow reinforce your threatened worldview I won't feel the need to present the opposing point of view. -
brantley147 — 20 years ago(February 10, 2006 09:24 PM)
Yeah, but then he'd counter with "If other people w/handguns weren't trying to kill you, you wouldn't need them."
I use handguns for snakes, rabbits, possums, armadillos, etc. I've had countless fun times just going out in the backyard with my .22 and shooting some Mountain Dew cans.
I don't a have a problem with guns. If you treat them with the respect they deserve you don't have these problems. Never point a gun at anyone, always keep the safety on until a moment before you're ready to fire, always treat a gun as if it were loaded, cocked, and the safety is off. Those are the rules I've always abided by, I've nevda0er had a problem. -
filmbuff-63 — 20 years ago(February 15, 2006 06:48 AM)
Yeah, some of these nit wits think that it's like the Sorceror's Apprentice, where they have a mind of their own and toddle around shooting people. They allow lawsuits against gun manufacturers and other foolishness.
As for "other people with guns" If someone comes at me with brass knuckles, nunchucku or a knife- I wanna stop them. If someone harms my family, I want to use terminal force. To date this has never happened and I hope it doesn't. When it does I don't plan on using strong language.
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filmbuff-63 — 20 years ago(March 09, 2006 07:21 AM)
It's all about personal responsibility. Take responsibility for the dangerous tools in your house and keep them out of the wrong hands.
I don't know the stats. All I do know is that cars kill more people and I've never had an accident in my house with a gun. I've only drawn it once and never pointed it at anyone.
I shall owe thee an answer for that -
StoneGriffin — 19 years ago(December 04, 2006 05:39 PM)
by - Shan-12 on Tue Feb 21 2006 00:47:49
Apparently guns in the home kill many more people in accidents than are used successfully against intruders. Any truth in that?
No. That's not true. That 'sound bite' comes from a thoroughly discredited 'study' by Dr. Arthur Kellerman, an outspoken opponent of gun ownership. He took all deaths by firearms during a two month period in Seattle and Tacoma, and compared the people killed and whether or not (a) they died in their own homes or (b) they were killed by people they knew. Well he listed SUICIDES and Being shot by the Police as part of the total number, which is hogwash. His study has been thoroughly debunked but is still quoted from time to time, which is unfortunate since it is based on a LIE. By his own admission, he started out this 'study' with the INTENT to prove that owning guns is dangerous to the owners Gee nothing biased about THAT. -
Captain_Augustus_McCrae — 13 years ago(September 18, 2012 10:57 AM)
Shan-12,
No, there is no truth in that. A number of people die in home accidents involving firearms, but guns are used for self-defense an estimated 2,000,000 times a year in the USA. Accidents involving surgeons kill far more people every year than accidents with firearms. Shall we ban surgeons?
"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
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Jack_1515 — 19 years ago(December 14, 2006 07:35 PM)
No I wouldn't dumb ass. Don't projec16d0t your redneck politics onto what I was saying. Especially for self-defense handguns are designed for killing people. He just reinforces what I said, handguns are designe dfor killing.
How many of those snakes rabbits, possums and armadillos did you eat? You probably shot them for the hellava it. So glad you don't have a problem with handguns, but most people who do own handguns do not follow the rules and the common good overrules special priviledges of the few funded by elite rich right-wing political action groups. Handguns should be more strictly controlled and regulated and limited to certain professions or lifestyles (farnmer/rancher) where they might need them. But most people don't need them and shouldn't have access to them. -
ivc7-1 — 19 years ago(March 03, 2007 11:02 PM)
Oh, for someone who claims 'facts' are so important, you make the mistake of claiming 'most people who do own handguns do not follow the rules..'. Based on what? Same goes for owning guns. The whole last segment of that post is nonsensical. If true, there would far, far more accidents than what few there are every year. People do eat snakes, if they aren't killed as a nuisence, rabbits are very common tablefare and even armadillos recipies aren't that hard to find. I'd say in this post, your not right about much.
And if you're referring to the NRA, you might want to look at the number of members it carries. That would be an awful lot of 'elite rich'. -
Z-S — 19 years ago(May 03, 2006 01:49 AM)
The actors don't own the guns on the set. You can't expect that they know anything about safety, somebody did in this case. There should be a person that is resposible for firearms on the set and ultimately when stupid people are allowed to do stupid things with a weapon they bear the responsibility. It's just like giving the keys to your car to somebody that's too drunk to walk straight. They might not know better, but you do or you should.
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dg-7 — 19 years ago(June 12, 2006 12:14 PM)
Yes, having read Jennifer O'Neill's biography and the various articles about Hexum's death, you get a portrait of a man who was exhausted, and not thinking clearly, which led to his tragic death. Like most of you, I remember watching "Voyagers" as a kid. Would he have a big star? I don't think so, but he would've some future. You know, he would've made David Hasselhoff or Richard Dean Anderson irrelevant, at the very least. The tragedy is that he was a young, good looking guy whose life was cut short way too soon.
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MovieBuffMarine — 19 years ago(January 09, 2007 08:37 AM)
I see a lot of
"blame the tools and blame the system"
around here. Whatever happened to
personal responsibility?
JEH was no kid, he was an adult who did a BONEHEAD act! That might be harsh, but that's what happened.