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In November 2017, social media users encountered an image that ostensibly replicated a post from the AR-15 Gun Owners of America Facebook page, showing two photographs of a small child holding a handgun with text indicating the child had just had to put down the family dog due to barking complaints: The image appeared to be a bit of satire or dark humor playing on the ongoing debate in the U.S. about gun issues (and specifically private ownership of magazine-fed, semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15), which many viewers found disturbing in light of recent mass shootings at a Las Vegas concert and a Texas church. The photographs clearly had no connection to the backstory that accompanied them (about a boy's shooting his dog), as they originated with the Shutterstock stock photography service: In fact, these pictures depict a Russian photographer's three-year-old son playing with a toy gun, which the father captured with a camera and licensed as stock photos:
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