As several people have pointed out, there ain’t no such thing as an accidental shooting. If you shoot someone, the best you can hope for is a verdict of negligence. The first law of firearms is: Yes, the gun is loaded.1 You keep your finger off the trigger, you don’t point at your friends, you don’t point at things behind which you have friends.
If you give your hunting buddy a birdshot facial, you broke some of those rules.
He should be forced to do embarrassing public service announcements about the topic.
Maybe dressed up in a fairy suit. “Hi there. I’m Dick Cheney, and I’m dressed up as one of the Ammo Fairies to make a point. You know, the Ammo Fairies? They go around putting ammunition in unloaded guns when no one is looking. That means you should always assume a gun is loaded! Some folks may think the Ammo Fairies don’t really exist, but people who believe in them live longer than people who don’t! Ho, ho, ho! Time for me to buzz off! Just remember: follow the rules, and you won’t end up on national TV in a god-damned fairy suit!”
1This is parallel to the First Law of Chemistry which states: Yes, the Glass is Hot
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I find at least as distressing as shooting his pal the form of hunting he was engaged in.
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Yeah, it’s the Americanized version of the English upper class “shooting weekend”, which was designed for people like Bertie Wooster. ‘Nuff said.
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Cheney, Champion of the World
Also, inedible, unspeakable, and all that lot.
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Accident, my foot
Anyway, doesn’t Cheney subsist on human flesh? Or was that the blood of virgins?
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Re: Accident, my foot
I think something involving Jeff Gannon and truckloads of hapless Tunisian boys.
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Cheney needs public humiliation, natch, but I’d rather it involve branding irons, tar, feathers and bowie knives. Gotta say I have no sympathy at all for his gunbuddy. Nobody who’s going to spend a weekend with Cheney shooting things is any friend to the common man. I say, the bastards like guns so much, pack’em off to Iraq and let’em try to shoot something that shoots back. Birdshot? Pssh. Try chatting up a nurse while they’re picking roadside bomb shrapnel outta your ass, tough guy.
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Well, yes. I think what I meant is that he broke the rules of his own club here!
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Ya, I know. I just got me an agenda when it comes to that particular fellow.
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Ammo Fairies.
LOL.
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If only he had hunted Quayle 25 years ago, he wouldn’t have been hunting quail this weekend.
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Someone made a good point, If Harry had shot Cheney accidentally, Harry’d probably be full of 9mm holes right now.
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Upon seeing your “ow” & “owow” tags I started wondering what that Axl fella’s role in the incident was.
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