Hunter shoots, kills woman after mistaking her for a deer, officials say (insurance, state)

[PilgrimsProgress]

Do you even have to shoot deer in NY and CT? They have a nasty habit of running onto highways and becoming dinner.

[zzzSnorlax]

If you are hunting and you cannot 100% positively identify the target you are shooting at you don't take the shot, period. No excuse.

[trlhiker]

Hopefully he gets jail time and loses his right to own guns.

[Frank DeForrest]

As a deer hunter I find this reprehesible. At a min. the idiot hunter should be charged with manslaughter

[rigby06]

It was already answered in post #18, the hunter got buck fever, saw something moving in the bushes, and before identifying what they were shooting at; they took a shot. So instead of hitting the deer they wanted; they killed a innocent person.


The sad part is if this hunter was any kind of decent person; both the hunter and the man who lost his wife, will now have nightmares for years to come.

[boxus]

Yea, what a real idiot, he was hunting after hours, he did not identify the target, and from what little I read so far, it was more of a shot towards "something big moving" than an actual innocent mistake.

I support hunting 100%, but damn there are some idiots that do it, way too many from my experience when my parents had to deal with them coming often onto our property (where it was clearly marked no hunting, no trespassing, with a fence around it).

[HappyRider]

Everybody is rightly focusing on the shooter. My question is why are grounds on;y couple of hundred yards from residential neighborhoods are allowed to be hunted on? Where is state culpability in this?

[natalie469]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

Happens every year. People run over their own children with cars too.

Actually cars are dangerous to all people as soon as they are in motion. Guns are only dangerous when someone put his finger on the trigger.

The discussion is about guns not cars. I find it fascinating how some love to deflect lol

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by natalie469

The discussion is about guns not cars. I find it fascinating how some love to deflect lol

No it isnt, its about an individual who used very poor judgement.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by HappyRider

Everybody is rightly focusing on the shooter. My question is why are grounds on;y couple of hundred yards from residential neighborhoods are allowed to be hunted on? Where is state culpability in this?

If that was the case that would be a valid question.