Posted on 12/01/2017 7:41:46 AM PST by Navy Patriot
The shooter is responsible for whatever the bullet does.
Well, as long as it wasn't intentional, he should be found "not guilty", right? Oh wait, that rule only applies in San Francisco. And only to non-citizens with a 2nd grade education.
Try it after sunset. Look out to 200 yards I don’t know what kind of terrain it was, but it seems impossible to me that he saw her at all.
But if you can’t tell the difference, why would you shoot?
My take on this is that it is, at the very least, involuntary manslaughter.
No, that rule is quite stringent, in addition you must have multiple (more than three) felony convictions, you must have been deported from the US for illegal entry, five or more times and returned, you must have lied to police in the course of their investigations multiple times, and you must have a dozen or more misdemeanor incidents of disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct.
my suspicion is murder one and closer than 200 yards .maybe the woman refused sex or there was a neighbor dispute
If they can find motive, sucks to be him.
“...I have passed up several shots in several terrains because I was not ABSOLUTELY sure of the target or backstop. I was disappointed... but never sorry for my decisions.”
I was born in the State of New York and grew up there, in a rural upstate area so far from big cities that half the boys were absent each opening day (this was long before girls entered the ranks of hunters to any degree).
Despite being the first state in the Union to mandate hunter safety education and severely restricting handgun ownership for 106 years, New York remains overpopulated by a number of clueless urbanites; some convince themselves they are hunters. Growing up there 50 years ago, I frequented several public hunting areas. They all sounded like war zones then.
I’ve been in situations like the ones Navy Patriot encountered; uncertainties prompted me to pass up more than one shot for the very same reasons. Never regretted any such decision.
But despite all the training and education nationwide, there are still would-be hunters who lack judgment (or who refuse to practice it). In overpopulated places like New York, even a tiny percentage of such people can still amount to an alarmingly large number.
Having met a number of “shoot-at-the-sound” hunters, I believe the perp here. Hate to say it, but there are guys like him out there ... disaster is only a heartbeat away.
The flip side is people like the victim. Though I hate to say it even more, I have to cast a doubt or two on her prudence, in going afield at the worst possible time of day. Of course she should not have been shot (by anyone), but - given the unhappy realities of hunting in New York - there was a risk.
She took it.
There are likely more non-hunters in New York who dismiss the risk of becoming a target during hunting season, then there are hunters who will take an uncertain shot, like the one who hit her.
One might liken it to playing in traffic. It isn’t precisely illegal to cross many streets and roads, but doing so isn’t smart and all citizens ought to know it.
Now I live in a remote region of western South Dakota. I stay home during deer season (being too feeble to hunt any longer), and often keep the domestic animals inside too. Risks of a mistaken shot are not very big at all: in this state, most everyone shot by a hunter gets hit during pheasant season east of the Missouri River. One every couple years. Fatalities are fewer still. I am thankful.
But - if the season is open - keeping a low profile is prudent. And not very demanding.
Thanks, schurmann.
I wouldn’t And with a pistol? Oy vey.....
lol... is that a real story?
That is right.
I did not see any story from him.
Sounds like it but reminds me of a joke that was going around several decades ago about a couple of guys who worked in the mill who went on a hunting trip. Stanley, a Polish guy, had never been hunting and the other guys told him that he should only shoot at game with his rifle. The guys pitched tents and built a fire and bedded down for the night. About two in the morning all were awakened by a rifle shot and got out of their tents to see Stanley standing over the corpse of a young blond woman who had a gaping bloody hole in her chest. When asked what happened, Stanley said he saw the woman standing next to the coals of their fire, picked up his rifle and asked her if she were game. When she answered in the affirmative with a smile, Stanley shot her stone dead.
I don’t know what the aliens have
To do with it, at any rate these
Things happen for seemingly no reason
Except maybe we all get in the wrong
Frame of mind at times and there goes
Some lives down the drain.
But some believe there is a reason for
Every thing. Who knows.b
In my neck of the woods they call it "buck fever."
Everything looks like a trophy deer, especially on the last weekend of season.
How about a vile low life scumbag white or anything else?
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