Well I would not call Deer Hunters smarter, they are just after a bigger target that cannot fly away from you. My former brother in law had one foot shot and had to be partially amputated by an idiot Hunter that mistook him for a Deer. For years my sister joked that "Her man had a foot and a half". You never know when someone that you are Hunting with will have a brain fart and do something incredibly dangerous and stooopid. Bird Hunting is totally different than deer Hunting, and this is much ado about an old geezer that messed up. Hunters really do not take this very seriously, they know you take your chances in almost any sport. I am sure Mary Jo would have rather been shot with bird shot than left for dead by a perverted Drunk.
Smarter was tongue in cheek. Within the last decade or so I remember Gore, Bush, Kerry, Clinton in hunting exhibitions, always birds. I'm sure there are other examples, but why always birds? Obviously they presume that's viewed more favorably than hunting something on four legs. Drunk driving, that's a Kennedy thing, the jail term would end the career of anyone else.
Want to be shocked, this is an actual quote I occasionally abbreviate to a tagline. Is that a sick mind or what.
"If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."
- Charles Pierce in a January 5 Boston Globe Magazine article.