Comments on: Man "mistakes" girl for skunk, shoots

By: Martijn

Martijn — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:04:00 +0000

I fully understand that some people care a great deal about their right to own weapons, but can we at least agree that anyone who would pull the trigger without first clearly identifying what he’s shooting at, should never be allowed anywhere near a gun. Those are the people that kill people.

By: lecti

lecti — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:55:00 +0000

You’ll bankrupt gunmakers.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:01:00 +0000

Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear some regressive pundit say that “incidents like this are proof that we need more guns”.

By: hassenpfeffer

hassenpfeffer — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:32:00 +0000

Ah, Sewickley, where resident and mansion-owner Mario Lemieux is snubbed as “nouveau riche.” Ironically, Mario came to Pittsburgh from Quebec knowing not a word of English, and yet his neighbors now try to brush up his French.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:23:00 +0000

Probably on glint.

By: smut clyde

smut clyde — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:14:00 +0000

Suddenly my Sexy Honey Badger costume seems not such a good idea after all.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:10:00 +0000

It’s always Halloween here in Halloween Town.

By: awjt

awjt — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:53:00 +0000

Dat’s right, armed and skunkin’ DANGEROUS

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:48:00 +0000

I thought Halloween was 31st October? Why would you be having a Halloween party more than ten days early?

Maybe they’re trying to get it out of the way before their Thanksgiving party on Friday and their Christmas party next week.

By: smut clyde

smut clyde — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:26:00 +0000

a costumed 9-year-old girl was accidentally shot
It is hard to imagine the concatenation of circumstances that might cause someone to ‘accidentally’ pick up a gun – perhaps believing it to be something else — and ‘accidentally’ pull the trigger.
Perhaps ‘accident’ is the wrong word for ‘deliberate act with predictable consequences that one was too stupid to foresee’.

By: dbergen

dbergen — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:19:00 +0000

I think the gun helps.

By: for_SCIENCE

for_SCIENCE — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:27:00 +0000

Ozzy, anyone?

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19970731&id=3pQxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ewMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6681,9965495

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:00:00 +0000

derp.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:53:00 +0000

I assumed that the kid was peering over the top of a hillside, partly obscured by the hill, and the shooter just caught movement and a glimpse of black and white. If you’re walking around with a hammer and want to bludgeon something to death with it, every problem looks like a nail.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:50:00 +0000

Far from killing people, we’re now advised by bumper stickers that “GUNS SAVE LIVES.” Go figure.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:49:00 +0000

No – I’d file charges either way. If he were drunk it at least would make SOME sense on why he thought this would be a good idea.

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:44:00 +0000

It’s probably not a matter of poor eyesight or actually seeing her whole body and thinking she was a skunk. It’s what hunters call a “sound shot”: when a friggin moron shoots in the direction of a sound or a glimpse of movement, without making a solid visual identification of the target. When you hear someone say “I got off a good sound shot” in their hunting stories, you should turn down their invitation to go hunting together.

By: Roberto Fernandez

Roberto Fernandez — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:41:00 +0000

You smoke skunk, you don’t shoot it.

By: autark

autark — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:31:00 +0000

Isn’t this every Halloween at Dick Cheney’s house? This is just one of the party games they play… instead of pin the tail on the donkey, it’s dodge Uncle Dick’s Shotgun.

By: tylerdurden

tylerdurden — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:54:00 +0000

As opposed to it being ok if he had been drunk?

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:51:00 +0000

To be fair, most hunters are safe and responsible. But most isn’t enough.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:50:00 +0000

Because the AAA doesn’t tell people the President is trying to take away their cars.

By: sqyntz

sqyntz — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:43:00 +0000

never underestimate the ingenuity of an idiot (with apologies to Douglas Adams)

By: sqyntz

sqyntz — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:38:00 +0000

if skunks had guns, people wouldn’t shoot at them

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:16:00 +0000

This is basically the argument that fanatical gun extremists make all the time.

By: joelogs

joelogs — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:55:00 +0000

Amen. That 9-year-old girl should have had a gun! Then she would have been completely safe.

By: awjt

awjt — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:18:00 +0000

If all the idiots own all the guns, and all the smart people don’t, then they ain’t so smart is they?

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:10:00 +0000

I thought this happened in Sewickley, a fancy suburb of Pittsburgh, not the sticks. Then I noticed it was in New Sewickley, which … is the sticks.

By: huskerdont

huskerdont — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:25:00 +0000

Get away from the eastern portion, and PA is pretty, um, rural–a lot like West Virginia (not that I’m disparaging them, because it is a bit more varied than it’s given credit for). Anyway, I’ve been all over U.S., and the, um, rural people are in every state I’ve been to. A story of this type could have easily happened in California, New York, North Dakota–almost any state, really.

By: Henrix

Henrix — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:25:00 +0000

Well, dressing as a potential skunk hunter for Halloween could be scary.