Posted on 02/13/2006 10:38:19 AM PST by SirLinksalot
Who is apologizing?
I'm fat, I sleep most of the winter and I saw my shadow yesterday. Does that make me a groundhog?) YES
One of the number one rules in driving a car is not to hit anything, But my wife has hit the door of the garage twice now, and I jack kifed the trailer too tight with my pickup and bent the fender. Its called an accident and they happen.
I'm sorry, but the vast majority of hunting accideents don't just happen. They are usually the fault of either poor firearms handling or poor field safety. From what I have read, it was a disorgainzed scramble into the field after two coveys. It was stupid to flush the second covey until everyone was back in position from the first covey.
I'm hazarding a guess here, but it appears a combination of factors lead to this accident.
The guy who got shot came up behind the group just as a covey of quail was flushed, and was in tall grass, which may have partially obscured the vest.
If Mr. Cheney turned and focused on a bird, objects behind the bird would tend to disappear, because the eye is focused on the bird.
So, what I'm getting from all this is a confluence of events that ended in this mistake.
Mr. Cheney's friend being a few seconds earlier or later is probably the difference between getting shot and not getting shot.
My point is that we weren't there and it's easy to sit in judgment from a distance.
Your ad hominem only means you don't have any basis for your unsupported and downright silly comment that this man is somehow 'at fault' for being shot.
"We have a winner. Who will probably be flamed for being correct."
Not by me but, dang! Ultimately it was Cheney's fault but this is the biggest non-story I have ever seen. Next we'll be bombarded with media drivel about how Condi slammed someone's fingers in the car door or how Rumsfeld left the door open and the cat got hit by a truck.
Accidents happen to everybody.
The White House is taking tort reform way too seriously...
Thanks!
Notice no clip in the rifle. Which is a good thing because that pose is a good way to lose your head.
There seems to be a modern-day notion that accidents are always caused by negligence. In fact, it's as though the word "accident" has been redifined to mean negligence. It's probably a result of the sue-everybody-in-sight-when-there's-an-injury mentality these days.
I think the fact that the VP shot someone is less of a story than the fact that his office put out a statement saying he didn't do anything wrong. If you pull the trigger when your gun is pointed at someone you don't intend to shoot, you have done something wrong. Period.
That reminds me -- the Klintons have their own Mafia, don't they?
It is still the responsibility of the shooter to make sure no one is downfield. And from what I have read, the entire hunting party was acting in a disorganized manner. I would have expected better from an experience hunter like Cheney.
Quayle Hunting........ Democrats have shot others at this sport for years.
Hey!
As best I can remember ALGORE was stationed in a hut and not allowed outside the compound, so as not to get hurt.
He decided to take som photos of himself in case he might need tham one day kinda like Skerry did.
ALGORE is so stupid he didn't realize it would show him looking right into the barrel of the M-16.
Too Funny
Wittingham may have been in the wrong not to let the party know he had gone off the line, but the entire onus was on VP Cheney to know where everyone was at before he pulled the trigger.
Yes, this was an accident, and luckily not a tragic one, but the bottom line is the fault lays at the feet of the shooter in all instances.
That's an empty rifle in that picture.
It also appears to be partially stripped, and given what he's doing it does appear that he's in the process of stripping it down.
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