Posted on 02/12/2006 12:46:46 PM PST by bayourant
Edited on 02/12/2006 2:10:43 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
If that's the spin they're putting on it, W-O-W!
A shooting victim is "at-fault" for getting shot?!?!?
I guess RHIP after all.
I'd hate to get rear-ended by the Cheney motorcade while I was stopped at a red light. I'd not only get hospitalized, but I'd get ticketed too, for "causing the accident!
Anybody wanna lay odds on the chance of any "normal"-class citizen managing to pull off an "it was the other guy's fault" (that you shot him) defense -- and getting away with it?
(My guess is that not only would you lose, but you'd also get sanctioned eleven ways to Sunday for insulting the Court's intelligence and wasting its time with that "novel approach to a shooting defense.")
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.
Interesting times for birds.
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BIRDS DISCHARGE ON COURIC: NBC OLYMPIC COVERAGE OFF TO MESSY START
ROTFLMAO!
In an amazing 180, Hillary has already arranged for several duck hunting trips to Ohio, months before the scheduled September '08 photo-op.
LOL -- I sent a link to that thread to PJ-Comix; we'll see if he finds it worth DUmmie FUnnies material....
"AP's first headline was wrong."
What was it?
Click the Pic
Yeah the NRA pr guys just had all their Sunday ruined today as their pagers went off. It happens more than people think but still stupid. To be honest it might have a good effect if hunter safety is highlighted and maybe the NRA can spin this in a good way as well as other groups. HEck maybe they will talk about the thrills of Bird hunting. Hunting is going down nationwide unfort which means bad things for our gun rights in the long run
"LOL -- I sent a link to that thread to PJ-Comix; we'll see if he finds it worth DUmmie FUnnies material...."
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OldScratch (1 posts) Sun Feb-12-06 05:00 PM
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172. Cheney's gun...
... has still killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car...
Read the report again. The Geezer shot a bird and went off away from the rest of the group looking for it. He never signaled that he was near the VP, or in the immediate area. Shame on him for getting the VP involved in his brain fart.
You know what is so funny was that Howard Dean Referenced former Vice Pres Burr and Cheney together this morning. I wonder if Dean knew and was trying to be cute lol
ROTFLMAO! C of Course.
I'm surprised more people aren't shot while hunting quail and pheasant and the like. If you've ever been, things happen very, very quickly when those birds fly up. And most 78 year olds can't move that fast, LOL! I've been a few times, but I don't really like it; too much work for too little meat in the freezer. Canada Goose, though? We'll have a few in the freezer come fall for Thanksgiving & Christmas dinners. ;)
Then again, maybe deer hunters are just smarter.
I'd rather deer hunt, myself. And I do. But it's been a number of years since I shot anything; these days my friends use me to drive the deer and help butcher because I have a heated machine shed. (They always share the bounty. I have 40 lbs. of burger in the freezer and as much in steaks and roasts right now, too.) Believe me, if I didn't trust them with my LIFE, I would NOT be out there in the general area where they'll be shooting, LOL!
Can you imagine a Presidential candidate doing a photo op over his most recent buck? TR, where are you?
Coming as I do from a long line of outdoorsmen, hunting accidents do happen. That being said, perhaps Mr. Cheney and his hunting buddy are getting a little too old for this and need to take up fishing rods.
BIRDS DISCHARGE ON COURIC: NBC OLYMPIC COVERAGE OFF TO MESSY START
LOL
What was it?
At first AP said Cheney got shot.
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