Cheney On The Rampage
Henry here. My father gave me my first gun when I was about 13 years old. Mostly I used it for target shooting. Then, a lifetime ago, I used to do a lot of hunting. At the end it was more important to sit under a tree and let nature talk to me than it was to shoot something. I was in danger only once.
I had taken a friend hunting for a bear and when one did not oblige we went back to the car. As we were unloading our guns suddenly his crashed out and a bullet dug into the ground within feet of me. I nearly jumped out of my skin. He was all apologies. He had not taken his gloves off before trying to get the magazine out of the rifle and had accidentally tripped the trigger.
Such an action is unforgivable and I never went hunting with him again. In fact, it went a long way to ridding me of the hunting bug. You just do not do things like that. Gun safety is critical. You don’t shoot your partner.
This appears to be a lesson that vice president Dick Cheney has never learned. Apparently he shot his hunting partner with a shotgun while out hunting quail. It seems to me that something is wrong when one is so gun happy as to shoot your own partner, especially when he is wearing a flame orange vest. The reason you wear those when hunting is so that you are not shot.
What does this tell us of the vice-presidents psychology when as an old man he is so careless and so hopped up that he shoots his own partner? Perhaps he has jumped into other situations with an equal lack of forethought or planning. I wouldn’t go hunting with him and perhaps I wouldn’t trust his impulsive and aggressive judgment in other places either.
What do you think?