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I'm from Beaver County. I never saw a skunk as big as a 9 year old child, even a small one. I'd say the relative was helping himself to too much Halloween cheer!
And if he did shoot an actual skunk? What a smell that would have created.
I don't see why he would have shot it even it was an actual skunk. Where is a skunk supposed to be but outdoors? The skunk didn't seem to be bothering anyone. This story reeks (pun intended). A nine year old is taller and wider than a skunk and why was he carrying a loaded firearm at Halloween party anyway?
I don't see why he would have shot it even it was an actual skunk. Where is a skunk supposed to be but outdoors? The skunk didn't seem to be bothering anyone. This story reeks (pun intended). A nine year old is taller and wider than a skunk and why was he carrying a loaded firearm at Halloween party anyway?
The girl supposedly had on a black hat w/a white tassel. Maybe that's what the guy saw. I agree he shouldn't have been carrying around a loaded firearm.
I'm from Beaver County. I never saw a skunk as big as a 9 year old child, even a small one. I'd say the relative was helping himself to too much Halloween cheer!
that was kind of my point.
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Originally Posted by Wapasha
And if he did shoot an actual skunk? What a smell that would have created.
you have no idea just how bad a smell skunks can create, unless you have worked at the el tovar hotel in the grand canyon. there were nights in the summer when we would have as many as three skunks get down into the basement area, and start marking their territory. it would get so bad that the people at the ends of the hotel on the third floor would complain.
I don't see why he would have shot it even it was an actual skunk. Where is a skunk supposed to be but outdoors? The skunk didn't seem to be bothering anyone. This story reeks (pun intended). A nine year old is taller and wider than a skunk and why was he carrying a loaded firearm at Halloween party anyway?
Good guess he just saw a portion of her costume. Since he fired a shotgun, I'm guessing he might have lived next door etc. but perhaps had it on a gunrack.
Sigh. Never ever ever shoot something you cannot identify. That's how people out hanging their laundry get shot during deer season.
Not likely. Most people don't want to get that close to a skunk as a knife would require. Guns make it easy to take lives from a distance. Do you get it now? Guns make it easy. So easy, in the opinion of many of us, that access to that kind of power should be more regulated than it currently is in most of the U.S.
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I'm accused of being a leftist and a big L "Liberal" here...this post and my posts on the death penalty (amongst others) will show how that is untrue.
Banning guns doesn't really work though. Make the guns illegal and the only ones who will have them are criminals who are willing to break the laws. Instead, the only thing that really works is increased penalties, both civil and criminal, for those who do misuse a gun.
This guy deserves to get into serious trouble not only for shooting a girl, but for the fact that he was going to shoot a skunk! Who shoots a skunk? If he misses, the little bugger is going to stink up the whole neighborhood. If he hits, there's a dead skunk carcass lying around. Either way, it's a lose-lose situation. On the other hand, if he simply waited to ensure that his life or home was in danger, he probably would not have fired. Hence, he's simply an irresponsible gun owner.
I propose that we make a law specifically for "Irresponsible gun ownership" to prosecute people who do not properly use or store their firearms.
That being said, if we're allowed to have guns, we should be allowed to have legal drugs too. Not at the same time obviously...but if we can legally own and carry something which can kill a dozen or more people on a single clip (depending on the gun of course), we should be able to shoot up heroin, smoke crack or snort a little cocaine...and we should certainly be allowed to indulge in a little marijuana which is less harmful than alcohol in every possible way.
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