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Mr. D said:I've been a gun sportsman all my life, but people from other countries think Americans are gun crazy obsessed with a macho need to have gun power. You can see where they get that opinion when even our vice president shoots someone! Only in America can we see no relationship between gun deaths and gun crime and guns! Next there will be no relationship between drug addiction and drugs! How about you! I believe in protecting our right to own guns, but the NRA is irrational to the point of losing support for our right to keep and bear arms.
OK NRA members, time to give me the :gunner: :roll:
It gets dumber...Kandahar said:Umm
So Dick Cheney was spending time with campaign donors...Is there any politician in the world that has never done that? How does this create the "appearance of impropriety"?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/12/cheney/index.htmlCNN said:Armstrong said Cheney was firing a 28-gauge shotgun, a small-bore weapon commonly used for hunting birds. Cheney has come to her ranch to hunt quail once a year for at least 15 years, and she called him "a very conscientious hunter."
tecoyah said:Question....If this had turned out Badly.......:
" HOUSTON - The Texas lawyer accidentally shot by US vice president Dick Cheney during a weekend quail hunt suffered a minor heart attack today when some of the birdshot migrated close to his heart, a hospital spokesman said.
Harry Whittington, 78, has been moved into intensive care and will have to stay in the Corpus Christi, Texas hospital where he is being treated for at least another seven days to monitor his condition, said Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital spokesman Peter Banko.
Dr David Blanchard, the hospital's emergency room chief, said at a news conference Whittington underwent cardiac catheterisation after doctors noted an irregular heartbeat due to a minor heart attack.
"We are very, very optimistic that with Mr Whittington's strong heart ... he will do very well," Blanchard said. "
.....And this man had died of a heart attack....would Cheney face Manslaughter charges?
tecoyah said:Question....If this had turned out Badly.......:
" HOUSTON - The Texas lawyer accidentally shot by US vice president Dick Cheney during a weekend quail hunt suffered a minor heart attack today when some of the birdshot migrated close to his heart, a hospital spokesman said.
Harry Whittington, 78, has been moved into intensive care and will have to stay in the Corpus Christi, Texas hospital where he is being treated for at least another seven days to monitor his condition, said Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital spokesman Peter Banko.
Dr David Blanchard, the hospital's emergency room chief, said at a news conference Whittington underwent cardiac catheterisation after doctors noted an irregular heartbeat due to a minor heart attack.
"We are very, very optimistic that with Mr Whittington's strong heart ... he will do very well," Blanchard said. "
.....And this man had died of a heart attack....would Cheney face Manslaughter charges?
Come on now, don't squash the liberal balloon. Let them have their dream.Kandahar said:I highly doubt it. From everything the media has reported on it, it sounds like an honest mistake.
Binary_Digit said:What dream KCC? Who from the left is saying Cheney did it on purpose? Your blind partisanship is as bad as theirs.
Let's not forget that the last time Cheney made "hunting" news was when he invited Justice Scalia to go shooting right after the Supreme Court granted certiorari on a case regarding whether Cheney could keep secret the membership of his energy task force.
Gill said:Yep, sounds suspicious to me. Cheney must have sent some bribery ducks back with Scalia since the eventual ruling was 7-2 in favor of Cheney.
I'm guessing that Ginsburg and Souter either don't like roast duck or are secret PETA members since they didn't vote with the majority.
aps said:I do not believe so. I watched Dan Abrams this morning and he had Texas attorneys addressing this very issue. The attorney said that there are four levels of intent that would be considered. I can't remember them, but when I heard them, I thought, "Nope. He won't get charged." I believe the attorney said that as well (I was in the process of blowdrying my hair, so I missed part of it.).
Binary_Digit said:What dream KCC? Who from the left is saying Cheney did it on purpose? Your blind partisanship is as bad as theirs.
Well, when you said "let them have their dream" I thought you were replying to the "honest mistake" part. I haven't heard anyone try to say it was intentional, so I said something. I agree with you, all those things you mentioned are just stupid reasons to take jabs at him.KCConservative said:Are you kidding me? Have you read the threads on this topic? Yeah, let's talk about partisanship. The haters are foaming at the mouth over this. As with every other scandal over the past six years, they are hoping this is the one that finally sticks. Hunting lanes, sneaking up from behind, why didn't he release it to the press, had he been drinking, what if the victim dies, what charges would be brought, why doesn't he look more sympathetic, gos you never see Cheney's warm side, he's above the law, and on and on and on. Blind partisanship, indeed.
Mr. D said:Only in America can we see no relationship between gun deaths and gun crime and guns!
KCConservative said:Got to hand it to you, dana. You never stop looking for the one item that will put you folks back in power. Hey, I think this just might be it. Shout it loud and proud, my friend. QuailGate 2006 will be the key to victory.
Quite true. There have been many (AWOL, Diebold, Haliburton, WMD, way too many to name). But none of them have ever stuck. I was just suggesting that this might be the one. :roll:alphieb said:Nope, Sorry KCC, but we had it long before this accident. That is extremely irrelevant to what Bush has done. Please don't ask me what, as you know, I don't want to go over it numerous times. It already affects the whole world indirectly.
Goobieman said:Every year, the number of guns in the US goes up -- BATF says >4.5M guns sold every year.
Every year the number of gun crimes and gun deaths in the US remains relatively constant -- and in fact there were FEWER gun deatsh in 2002 than 1982.
If more guns = more crimes/gun deaths, why hasnt the number of gun crimes/deaths clibmed proportionally to the number of guns?
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