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Newsjock

(11,733 posts) Fri Mar 8, 2013, 09:09 PM Mar 2013

Host of 'A Rifleman's Journal' is shot dead in apparent jealous rage

Source: Associated Press

A northwestern Montana man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show "A Rifleman's Journal" in an apparent jealous rage while the TV personality was visiting the shooter's wife, police said Friday.

Wayne Bengston, 41, then beat his wife, took his 2-year-old son to a relative's house and drove to his home about 25 miles away in West Glacier, where he killed himself, Whitefish Police Chief Bill Dial said.

"It's pretty much an open-and-closed case. Homicide and suicide," Dial said.

Police identified the shooting victim as Gregory G. Rodriguez, 43, of Sugar Land, Texas. ... Besides appearing on TV, Rodriguez was the founder and CEO of Global Adventure Outfitters. According to the company's website, he was an editor at Shooting Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Petersen's Hunting, Guns & Ammo and Dangerous Game.

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Host of 'A Rifleman's Journal' is shot dead in apparent jealous rage (Original Post) Newsjock Mar 2013 OP

Guns kill malaise Mar 2013 #1

I am glad he didn't also shoot his wife and son... Kalidurga Mar 2013 #2

What a shame mokawanis Mar 2013 #3

Got guns? This is the kind of thing that can happen. longship Mar 2013 #4

Whoopsie. nolabear Mar 2013 #5

Well said. Unfortunately, there are too many slippery slopes, these days. Frustratedlady Mar 2013 #8

Just the truth malaise Mar 2013 #9

Yeah but it doesn't work that way. The more guns, the more accidents, the more "in the way", etc. nolabear Mar 2013 #13

When will these fools get it right? Suicide first, then kill everyone you can . . . Journeyman Mar 2013 #6

Live by the gun... MineralMan Mar 2013 #7

"Guns & Ammo and Dangerous Game" Walk away Mar 2013 #10

Another "responsible" gun owner/enthusiast. Hoyt Mar 2013 #11

Will Sarah Palin show up at his funeral & insist flags be 1/2 staff? LeftInTX Mar 2013 #12

At least it wasn't a random murder. nt Comrade_McKenzie Mar 2013 #14

So very tragic, man. AverageJoe90 Mar 2013 #15

malaise

(269,054 posts)

1. Guns kill

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 09:20 PM

Mar 2013

Ah well

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

2. I am glad he didn't also shoot his wife and son...

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 09:21 PM

Mar 2013

but, still nothing but a tragedy here.

mokawanis

(4,442 posts)

3. What a shame

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 09:21 PM

Mar 2013

Couldn't control his rage and jealousy and now he's thrown his own life away and done grievous harm to his wife and child. I feel sorry for the little boy.

longship

(40,416 posts)

4. Got guns? This is the kind of thing that can happen.

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 09:22 PM

Mar 2013

The last thing we need is more of them.

nolabear

(41,987 posts)

5. Whoopsie.

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 09:23 PM

Mar 2013

No, it's tragic. But I am just exhausted with how much has to happen before people will admit guns are dangerous. In the past two hours I've read of this, a school "armed guard" accidentally fires his gun in a high school and here in Seattle a woman shot someone in a community center in some kind of rage. I don't care if you're responsible. I don't care how much you think it could never be you. Guns are dangerous, and I fear the collateral damage if we ride down the slippery slopes of paranoia, rage and greed and keep them around us all the time.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)

8. Well said. Unfortunately, there are too many slippery slopes, these days.

Reply to nolabear (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 09:29 PM

Mar 2013

I would think that this probably isn't the first time that household has had these types of problems. The husband sounds like he was quick on the trigger and shouldn't have had a gun at hand.