Cheney shoots man in hunt error
This story has been pretty well covered by all the big news organisations already, I just want to comment on a quote I find slightly disturbing from the shot guy’s daughter.
In the BBC article, she’s talking about how things like this happen from time to time. Fair enough, it’s bound to with groups of people in a forest firing guns at fast-moving targets and it’s nice she apparently isn’t holding a grudge against Cheney, but she then says:
“This is something that happens from time to time. You know, I’ve been peppered pretty well myself”
The suggestion seems to be that it’s pretty much to be expected that if you go hunting you’re gonna end up being shot by some dozy idiot who hadn’t noticed you were there. It’s astonishing to me that they have such a blasé attitude to potential death. What if Cheney had killed him?
EDIT: It was the ranch manager with the quote above, not the daughter. Still a weird attitude, but ever-so-slightly less outlandish coming from someone with more of a vested interest in not portraying the ’sport’ in a bad light.
February 13th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
*mutters something about racing drivers*
OR, and here’s something radically challenglingly pushing-the-envelopely novel - what if bird shot has a very low probability of killing someone? It only needs to go through a couple of centimetres of feathers and bits to snuff a bird’s tweeter (see what I did there?), so short of it getting in someone’s tracheotomy wound, I don’t think it stands much chance of killing you.
Bonus points for decoding my name.
February 13th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Challenglingly eh?
I’m sure bird shot is less dangerous. I’m also sure it’s more than capable of killing someone, just like an air rifle can.
I’m basically surprised at how un-angry/upset anyone seems to be that he managed to shoot someone in the face for whatever reason.
Fernando Al-onze-o?