“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 2
The hunt for politeness progresses.
A woman has been killed in a hunting accident on the first day of deer season in Maine.
Karen Wrentzel, 34, was shot dead around 10.30am on Saturday morning in a heavily wooded area near Hebron, Maine, in the first hunting fatality the state has seen in four years.
Family members said that Wrentzel was on her own property digging for rocks and gems when the incident occurred.
The story goes on to say that the property was not “posted” and that she wasn’t wearing “blaze orange.” It implies (unitentionally, I believe) that it was her own damn fault for looking like a furry severeal-hundred-pound four-legged animal in the eyes of the shooter, who is held to a lower standard because he has a hunting license.
October 29, 2017 at 9:18 pm
This deadly insanity strikes too close to home.
We live on heavily wooded acreage and we don’t out up obnoxious “keep out” signs.
October 29, 2017 at 10:23 pm
My father would let any local hunters (we lived in the country and he knew everyone) hunt on our land. I loved walking in the 15 acres or so of woods at our small farm, but, in hunting season, I would forego that pleasure.
But, really now, this is beyond the pale. As a shooter, I was trained to make sure that I knew what I was shooting at. (When I’m in practice, I’m actually a quite good shot, though I’ve lived in cities so long I’m no longer in practice and, because I’m sane, feel no need to be.)
There is no reasonable excuse for this death.
My brother lived in Vermont many years ago. He stopped going for walks in the woods when he heard hunters (mostly from out-of-state) talk about “sound shots.”
That is, they heard a sound and they shot at it.