Letter: We live in a prison made of guns

To the Editor-

I lived next door to Grandpy Sandy for the first 16 years of my life. The story passed down to this little kid was the reason we never had guns in our family was that one of Grandpy’s brothers shot another one cleaning a gun.

Well, last month I happened upon some old newspaper clippings. I was gobsmacked. First, our name was originally spelled Hurysz. Second, the brother story wasn’t accurate.

FrontpageStevens Point JournalDec 5, 1902:

“Father Shot by Son”

George Hurysz was accidentally shot by his oldest son. Hurysz and his oldest son, Kisl, a boy about 18 years of age, had spent a part of the forenoon hunting rabbits in the woods near their home. After dinner the boy took his gun, a muzzle-loading shotgun, cleaned and oiled it, and then reloaded the…