Perhaps if Cheney had gone to Vietnam instead of getting all those student deferments he would have learned a bit more about handling weapons.
Probably not. Using military-issue rifles in a war bears little in common with hunting quail with a shotgun.
Well, yeah. The quail don’t shoot back, after all.
I didn’t realise you hunted quail with a shotgun. I mean, they’re pretty small birds, I would have thought the spread of shot would pretty much ruin the carcass for getting any meat off of it.
What I found interesting about this in the article I read, was that the guy Cheney shot received almost instant medical attention due to the fact that Cheney travels everywhere with a full medical staff and ambulance.
If your health is so shakey that you gotta have a Doctor, nurses, and an ambulance follow you around everywhere, then perhaps hunting is a bit more than you wanna be doing. Maybe it’s time to take up something a little more relaxing, like cross-stitch or yoga.
Gun control means not giving your gun to the VP.
Do I smell a Medal of Freedom in the offing for Mr. Whittington?
“You’re a hell of a shot, Dickie!”
Hunting quail with a rifle would be damn near impossible, wouldn’t it?
For quail, you typically use a load of birdshot with a reduced mass of powder. Heavier birds like waterfowl use a different load.
In any case, you’d be using birdshot, and not buck, which is probably what you’re thinking of.
Because, Mr. Moto’s protests to maintain neutrality before, “all the facts come out,” aside, I tend to equate shooting another hunter with being a dumbfuck. Given Mr. Cheney’s political support for the NRA, I kind of think that it behooves the VP to be a bit more responsible around these things.
The question is, did Dick Cheney or did Dick Cheney not have Weapons of Quail Destruction, and if so, when did he know it?
Yes, because only dumb people are involved in accidents. :wally
Well, doing all the right things with your gun reduces the risks involved greatly. But only an idiot assumes that those risks go away.
I say that as a hunter and a gun owner myself. Anytime I hold a gun, I am aware of the risks involved, and of the very real chance that bad things might happen even if I do everything right. It does focus the mind more, and forces you to control those things you can.
When you get into your car, and obey all the laws and courtesies of the road, do you assume then that you are 100% safe? When you see an accident, do you jump to the conclusion that one of the drivers was a dumbfuck, while knowing nothing else?
Same thing.
Sure, if it’s known one of the drivers is a Republican.
It’s a perfectly reasonable assumption, both in hunting accidents and car accidents, that at least one person involved did something stupid.
In this case, it appears to have been Mr. Whittington:
Mr. Whittington is, as has been noted, a Republican. I apologize for my unwashed degeneracy in declaring that fact, but still, he is. You must wear pillows under your chin to protect it from your knee jerking.
And when you combine driving around and jumping out to shoot at stuff, you are doubling your risks?
Um, yeah, here’s the thing:
If the Vice-President shoots you, is it proper, either in terms of etiquette or the law, to return fire?
Sua
Man, if I accidentally shot somebody, I think I’d just about have a heart attack.
I don’t know that it’s perfectly reasonable to assume anything. How many people died in those Firestone-defective tires accidents? The vast majority of those people had no idea anything was wrong until their tires exploded.
And nonetheless, someone doing something stupid doesn’t make them dumbfucks last I checked. Or is anyone in this thread ready to seriously claim they’ve never done anything stupid?
Fortunately, one other member of the hunting party was feeling sickly, and was unable to attend. Otherwise, the results might have been more tragic.
Y’know, I have heard through various reputable sources that drinking and hunting go together like green eggs and ham. Could this explain the fact that Mr. Whittington foolishly hurled himself face-first in front of Dick Cheney’s shotgun, which Cheney had pointed at his own crotch out of pure concern for safety? Hmmmm? Hmmmmmm? Hmmmmmmmm?