Posted on 11/25/2004 3:59:06 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak
In a nation where the number of nut cases running loose seems to have increased exponentially in the past decade or so, I guess we shouldn't be surprised that a deer hunter killed six other hunters and wounded two more in Wisconsin after an argument over trespassing.
And I guess it's even more surprising that incidents in which hunters deliberately shoot other hunters are rare, considering the potential for mayhem with all of those armed amateurs running loose in the woods.
The closest thing I could find to the Wisconsin killings happened in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 1994, when a local screwball deer hunter with a reputation for hair-trigger violence ambushed and killed Rochester police officer Adam Hills and Seney deer guide Don Bonifield in a dispute over deer bait on public land.
The killer, Jack Kidd, further confirmed his reputation as a disturbed person by getting into a gunfight with state police. He shot himself to avoid capture.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
That is the stupidest headline I have ever read.
The children pass clues about the best ways to convert sporks from a lunchroom eating implement to instruments of death.
That must make the chances 50-50 - eh?
The number of "nutcases" per capita just after the civil war was about 20 times what it is today. We just hear about more "nutcases" in general because it's what the PMS-MSM focuses on...
John Muhammad ended up being tagged for killings in the PACNW, the Souf', and the DC area. Other serial killers might do the same.
When I lived in Idaho there was the saying. "There are no murders in Idaho. They are hunting accidents."
What an ignorant and insulting comment! What the hell is surprising about it?
Unless they graduated from Jihad sniper school.
We've far more to worry about in Islam and in the legion of broken minds left in the wake of public edusocialism.
"Hunters almost never deliberately shoot others"
Tell that to Bambi's mother, Neanderthal!
Deers are people too.
Oh, but the author is a "hunter"; must be one of the John Kerry/Elmer Fudd variety.
I almost never read these threads, well except this time.
Another study found that Japanese hibachi chefs almost never deliberately attack and slash their customers with their knives.
Per the headline: except for brothers-in-law and the occasioal philandering "best friend."
With my luck there will be a tollbooth.
One of my small town's most famous hunting "accidents" was really a murder. The president of my county's largest employer "accidentally" killed his wife on a hunting trip just days after she filled for divorce against him.
Not the greatest plan there.
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