[an amused spectator]

You have to love the usual crowd arguing on this thread that technically, he's correct.

Observer: "Northam accidentally shot himself in the head with a 9mm semiautomatic."

Freeper corrector dude: "Actually, it was a .38 caliber revolver. That makes a YUGE difference."

[Pelham]

You could shorten that to “why be interested in history when there is political hay to be made”.