This may not be true: It was also reported that this was “fake news” based on a hack of his facebook page. So … mostly we don’t know. [More]
Who is “reporting” that?
I’ve long been a big one for cautioning people against passing on rumors and not verifying sources, so if it does turn out to be true, I failed to follow my own advice. All I can say is my mind is not set up to expect the kind of sickness that would get off on doing something like this, and in this day and age, I guess that’s yet another failure on my part.
In defense of those of us who weighed, there is this, from Gun.com and Daily Caller via AOL News:
- 2A Legend Robert K. Brown Passes, Aged 93
- Robert K. Brown, Publisher And Advocate For Second Amendment, Vets Passes Away At 93
That last one is by Harold Hutchison, who was consulting senior editor at SOF from 2007 to 2016 and presumably ought to know.
That leads to the other possibility: What kind of sick f_ would start a rumor that the death announcement was a hoax?
I suppose I could try and clear things up by emailing Col. Brown’s address, but why pester a family that made no announcement in August to ask them to clear up a toxic internet spill?
I’m going with the initial report is true and rumors of a hoax are just trolling until someone proves otherwise.
