Inaccurate reporting?

The cover story in the January 4 issue of Nunatsiaq News, “Gun-toting teens mar festivities in two hamlets” was inaccurate. “Gun-toting teen” indeed. Reading the headline of this article, one gets the impression that this kid had some thrills — shooting his rifle like a cowboy in the Wild West from the 1800s.

Yes, when a rifle is aimed at your face there is “some risk,” as stated in the article. But half the community was not at the dance. The community hall where the dance was held cannot even hold half of Kinngarmiut. As I had arrived at the scene minutes after the incident had happened, I would say that there were less than 50 people at the dance.

I would think that the article would have been longer than a few paragraphs had half the community actually been at the dance, as a shooting would definitely panic some 600 people in an enclosed area.

Please have some consideration for ones who feared for their lives, especially the ones who witnessed the shooting.

Nathaniel Joanasie
Iqaluit
njoanasi@hotmail.com