A British woman who was shot dead by her father while visiting his home in Texas had argued with him about US President Donald Trump earlier that day, an inquest has heard.

Lucy Harrison, from Warrington in Cheshire, was shot in the chest on 10 January 2025 in Prosper, near Dallas.

Police in the town investigated the 23-year-old’s death as possible manslaughter but no criminal case was brought against Kris Harrison after a grand jury in Collin County declined to indict him.

An inquest into Lucy Harrison’s death opened earlier at Cheshire Coroner’s Court, where her boyfriend Sam Littler described the “big argument” about Trump, who was preparing to be inaugurated for his second term of office.

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    The article gets way worse, "Littler said on the morning of 10 January his partner had asked her father during the Trump row:

    “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”

    Kris Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much. "

    Holy fucking shit.

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          I personally know at least 10 people that are this person. I’ve been threatened with violence for voicing my opposition to Trump. Supposed Christians threatening violence because I don’t like their pedophile conman. They’re a bunch of little bitches.

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            Revelation 13:16.

            It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads

            You’d think Christians would be more aware of walking around with a symbol on their forehead (maga hats), but amazingly it takes an athiest who actually knows the bible to point it out, and booooooooy do they fuckin hate hearing it.

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              I’d be embarrassed to use their own scripture against them, because it would feel like I was admitting to believing it when I don’t.

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          Construction is infested with Trump supporters. They’re always entitled imbeciles but there’s a lot of them

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      Yeah I was about to post the same shit. That is disgusting that is his fuckin daughter for fuck sake.

      Texas should be nuked without question. That state is not worth saving after they said they wouldn’t indicate him.

      Fuckin magats are willing to let their children get raped for the pedo god king trump.

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    Man shoots daughter dead and everyone’s just okay with it because she didn’t like Trump?! The fuck is going on down there? How have you existed as a country this long?!

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      Man shoots daughter dead and everyone’s just okay with it because she didn’t like Trump?!

      It’s like South Asian “honor” murders where women are killed for even the most trivial matters.

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        Literally, these are honor killings. Full stop. Take a look at the gender makeup of these anti-ICE protests and then take a look at the ICE goons.

        It’s patriarchy, and people fighting patriarchy. It’s always been about white guys feeling terrified of their power eroding, and since white patriarchy has no coherent acceptable response other than rage, their first resort is everyone else’s last resort.

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        That’s a good point. Pointless and senseless but makes sense to some in some convoluted way to justify it. Just sad that it is acceptable. And what honour they aim for over such a shitty example of humanity?!

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    WHAT THE FUCK! THE GRANDJURY REFUSE TO INDICT? This total bullshit hang that motherfucking dad from a fucking tree.

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    Dude admitted he was an alcoholic who had already had a bottle of wine before the shooting, and they couldn’t get a manslaughter charge to at least go to trial? Being drunk and accidentally killing someone is manslaughter.

    This country is so fucked up.

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    • Accidentally took the daughter in the downstairs bedroom.
    • Accidentally produced a gun.
    • Accidentally loaded it.
    • Accidentally pointed it at the daughter.
    • Accidentally flicked the safety off. Apparently it was a Glock
    • Accidentally pulled the trigger.

    Color me suspicious but even if all that was just a series of unlucky coincidences, that man should be kept away from all guns for the rest of his life. At the very minimum.

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      What the article says is they disagreed on guns and argued about Trump. They went into his room to look at his 9mm glock and according to him the gun went of and he didn’t realize his finger was on the trigger. He relapsed to alcohol and was drunk at the time.

      He said: “As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell.”

      Harrison said he could not recall whether his finger was on the trigger.

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        His finger was absolutely on the trigger, and he pulled it. Glocks don’t just go off. They’re pretty well engineered.

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          On the trigger or not, that’s exactly why you never “show” someone a loaded gun. Unless we are at a range and we’ve already done all the safety training and I feel that you’ve got a grasp of it, I’m not keeping a loaded gun in my hands around anyone I don’t plan on shooting.

          It was pure negligence. Plain and simple. And now his daughter is dead. Accident or not, he ignored the rules and someone died from that negligence.

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          Yeah. A Taurus or a Sig, maybe. Not a Glock. There’s a reason they’re so popular. They reliably fire when the trigger is pulled and only when the trigger is pulled.

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            Even if it was a Sig, it was only older model P322s that had that problem. Pistols firing without pulling the trigger isn’t nearly as common as people (including, apparently, this jury) believe.

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              Also the P320 - which was adopted as the new standard-issue handgun for the US military.

              The Air Force actually suspended their use for a few months last year after one went off uncommanded and killed an airman. They inspected them and found that over 2% were already in unsafe condition after being adopted just 5 years earlier.

              And the civilan version is worse and in the middle of several lawsuits. And this is after they were recalled for not being drop-safe.

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        I did not understand what had happened.

        Maybe he shouldn’t be allowed to own guns, just a thought.

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      Sunk-cost fallacy.

      Trumpers don’t want to admit to themselves or each other that they’ve been duped, so they just keep digging their hole deeper.

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      He said it was an accident. I think a different article I read on this said he went back to treatment for alcoholism after this. This kinda suggests he was too drunk to remember. The other article noted the dad is not the one that called the ambulance which would more commonly be the case in an accidental shooting. But if he was drunk idk.

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    Another sacrifice to the god of guns.

    Every time something like this happens, gunbrains will explain why it’s the result of stupidity. But that’s just copeum because they need to believe that their choices aren’t putting their families at risk.

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      You just want them to give up their guns in case so the government can take over and they’ll be left defenseless! /s

      I mean, as you can see … they’re definitely using their guns to fight against this current tyrannical government rather than killing family members defending this fascist government from criticism from family members … 👀

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    They went into the bedroom so he could show her a Glock 9mm semi-automatic handgun which he kept in the bedside cabinet.

    Harrison said he had bought the gun a couple of years before because he wanted a “sense of security” for his family.

    He denied ever discussing it with his daughter before.

    He said: “As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell.”

    So, Glocks don’t have a manual safety. And dipshit amateur gun owners who don’t like a heavy trigger pull will periodically modify (or simply buy a modified) version of the weapon with a light trigger. This makes the gun easy to misfire. Add to that, the habit of paranoid owners keeping the gun loaded and chambered, because they think cocking a gun is the difference between life or death.

    Very real possibility this was an accident or - at most - involuntary manslaughter on behalf of the father.

    Littler said on the morning of 10 January his partner had asked her father during the Trump row: “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”

    Kris Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much.

    Littler said Lucy became “quite upset” and ran upstairs.

    As someone who lives in Texas and knows this exact kind of person, the elements laid out in the article make it sound like this guy was a clueless, tactless asshole who thought he could just laugh and hand-wave his way through a political conversation. His daughter is dead because he was treating his gun like a toy, not because he was in some kind of heated argument over Trump.

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    Seeing as like two cases of illegal immigrants killing pretty white girls is being constantly used as justification of deporting all illegal immigrants, does this mean we can use this as justification of deporting all MAGA supporters?