Sunday, April 29, 2012

Accidental Shooting of Hunter by Another Hunter - No Charges

Local news reports









What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.


  1. You do realize that this happened in New Zealand, right?

  2. "Spotlighting", hunting after dark with a searchlight? Gosh, that's sporting of those gents.

    "You do realize that this happened in New Zealand, right?"

    Oh, it didn't happen here, so it's not an issue?

    Sorry, Greggy, what the story shows is that gunzloontehburnin'stoopit is an international phenomenon.

    1. Democommie, the point, which you weren't bright enough to note, is that this happened in New Zealand, a country with much stricter gun laws than America. This shows that laws won't save knuckleheads from themselves.

  3. Even if you take the "right" to own a gun away after one bad incident, you can still have situations like these. So you take this guy's gun away - the other guy is still dead. Problem not solved.

    Honestly, there is a certain child-like naivete on the left that in other venues might be cute. Not all tragedies are preventable and even if they are humans suck at preventing preventable problems. There is an ahistoric optimism (dogma) that permeates many people in the world. They honestly believe that "this time will be different." Why? Because they are involved.

    1. My idea of one-strike-you're-out is anything but child-like naivete. It's based on the logical presumption that people who do stupid shit like this are likely to repeat their mistakes.

      Of course the guy they killed the first time would still be dead, but recidivism will be eliminated.

  4. Greg Camp:

    That whooshing noise you might have heard was the POINT of my comment going right over your floppyhatted skull. I know where the shooting took place. I know, unlike the MurKKKanSKKKrotalPatriotiKKK Front's favorite hottie, St. Sarah of Wassilla, how to read a newspaper article and use the "Five W's" (and the single "H").

    Boy, these rules are draconian:

    1b) The seven basic rules

    The seven basic rules explained

    Rule 1: Treat every firearm as loaded
    Rule 2: Always point firearms in a safe direction
    Rule 3: Load a firearm only when ready to fire
    Rule 4: Identify your target beyond all doubt
    Rule 5: Check your firing zone
    Rule 6: Store firearms and ammunition safely
    Rule 7: Avoid alcohol and drugs when handling firearms

    Somehow with all of the "restrictive rules" on firearms, New Zealanders still hunt and use gunz for other legitimate purposes.

    1. Demomoron, I wasn't talking about safety rules, and if you had a brain, you'd realize that. I referred to the draconian firearms laws of New Zealand as compared with ours. But somehow, even with the stricter laws that your side wants, bad things happen. How could that be?