It's the same old story same old song and dance, my friends.

 

The honus is on the person holding the gun. The first rule of gun safety is always knowing what you're pointing the gun at and what is beyond. I'm sorry, a 78 year old man isn't going to be moving any too fast and Cheney should have been aware that there was a person standing in front of him before he pulled the trigger. If Cheney actually was turning and shooting at a flying quail it would have been higher than 5' off the ground, anyway.

Any way you slice it - Cheney fucked up.

 

 

 

 

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 78-year-old hunting companion of Vice President Dick Cheney was recovering in stable condition Monday after Cheney accidentally shot him during a weekend quail hunting trip, a hospital official said. Harry Whittington "rested well last night," said Peter Banko, hospital administrator at Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial. The hospital listed Whittington's condition as "very stable," he said. Whittington, an Austin attorney, was flown to the hospital after Cheney accidentally shot him Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch, hitting him with birdshot.

"It's not critical. It's not serious," Banko said at a morning briefing. He said admitting Whittington to the trauma-intensive care unit was "a fairly common procedure" for a patient hit by a spray of the small pellets. "I don't know how much spray he has got," Banko said. "My understanding from the physicians is that after you get peppered, sometimes they need to do exploratory surgeries if it gets lodged in a little deeper. Sometimes it's tweezers." Banko said he did not know when Whittington would be released.