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Why not hunt with a pistol? Maybe because most people cannot hit a broom closet with a pistol if they were locked inside. Pistols are also for self defense at very close range generally measured in a low number of feet. Hitting a 1 ft. target at 100 ft. is really difficult. That is about the size of the kill zone on a deer and about as close as a person is likely to get. Hitting that same size target at three times the distance is not very difficult with a rifle even with iron sights.
Manslaughter conviction along with at least 15 years in prison, is my guess.
You usually nail it, but not this time. Unless the late woman's next of kin have the wherewithal to get Johnny Cochran exhumed and Resurrected so they can file the Mother of All Wrongful Death litigations, this will go down as just one more instance of the collateral damage accumulation due to America's entrenched handgun infatuation.
You usually nail it, but not this time. Unless the late woman's next of kin have the wherewithal to get Johnny Cochran exhumed and Resurrected so they can file the Mother of All Wrongful Death litigations, this will go down as just one more instance of the collateral damage accumulation due to America's entrenched handgun infatuation.
Fish and wildlife will view this as poaching so there will be a whole lot extra going on here.
How can one mistake a person for a deer? Why the hell would someone just point to a rustling bush and shoot? I have always stated that if I get shot while hunting, it is not an accident. I'm sorry but this guy is an idiot and needs the book thrown at him as that was just sheer stupidity and makes the rest of us look bad.
I come from a family of avid hunters. My dad, and now my brothers, only bow hunt. They live in NY state, and growing up would explain their reasoning: gun hunters, many of them city folks from the NYC area, would shoot at any bush that moved. That was 30+ years ago. Yes, they do just point a a bush that moves. Yes, they are idiots.
I come from a family of avid hunters. My dad, and now my brothers, only bow hunt. They live in NY state, and growing up would explain their reasoning: gun hunters, many of them city folks from the NYC area, would shoot at any bush that moved. That was 30+ years ago. Yes, they do just point a a bush that moves. Yes, they are idiots.
This guy probably saw the dogs eyes in the light and made a very poor judgement. Animal eyes are like lanterns in headlights.
I come from a family of avid hunters. My dad, and now my brothers, only bow hunt. They live in NY state, and growing up would explain their reasoning: gun hunters, many of them city folks from the NYC area, would shoot at any bush that moved. That was 30+ years ago. Yes, they do just point a a bush that moves. Yes, they are idiots.
The term is cityiots. One shot a donkey thinking it was a deer. I'm not joking. Cityiots. They were NYs version of Florida man...
Recently over here in Oregon a guy shot his own daughter while he was out hunting with her. I said to my wife, "neither of us would have come back home if that were me". I'm serious. I would have killed myself on the spot if I did something as wrong as taking another persons life due to stupidity on my part. I would NOT expect my wife to understand, forgive or in anyway forget a tragedy of that magnitude. In some cultures a guy like this would be expected to take his own life. There would not be any shame in that. The shame would be in trying to put it behind you and go on. Society should shun him.
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