ORIGINAL: TRYKONOISSEUR
Doc, I understand what your saying. Believe me when I tell you I'm 100% against gun control and very pro second amendment. I've spent a good many years fighting against bogus gun laws. I will say that in this case of a man shooting in a residential area with 2 to 3 different weapons is a real danger to the folks around him and has a severe lack of judgement. I don't want any gun control laws attached to Game laws. If someone commits a crime with a firearm, that firearms is confiscated. They don't get it back...ever. This man commited crimes involving firearms he should lose them. I'm not saying he shouldn't be allowed to buy another rifle as like in felony convictions,but he loses the ones he used in breaking the laws.
Agreed. He violated hunting safety laws, but I am sure he also violated municipal laws governing public safety and the discharge of a firearm in a residential area. The fines definitely need to be increased. We just have to be very vigilant when we address new legislation for the nonsense that some moonbat from hell may wish to attach to it. Yes, if you're using a firearm dangerously, irresponsibily and stupidly, the firearm gets a new home at the police station. Perhaps he can get it back after he coughs up a serious fine, and then another serious impound fee. This guy was an absolute moron. Lucky no one got hurt or killed. The moron factor is something that we cannot prevent, however. We will always have morons.
Like the debate over Blaze Orange in NYS. We do not require it. We have over 500,000 licensed hunters in NYS for 2006. This year we had 17 firearms-related accidents, one fatality. Over half of these accidents (9) were SELF-INFLICTED, with the king of all morons blowing his hand off while using his shotgun as a walking stick! The fatality was in Northern Zone, where a hunter in a TREESTAND shot and killed his hunting partner while the guy was walking into the shooter's position. How does one 20' up a tree mistake a human walking on two legs for a deer? Answer, either moron or premeditated murder, IMHO. Then we had the two brother-in-laws who did a quick draw sound shoot at eachother through a thicket. One guy didn't get hit, while the other sustained an abdominal wound, and survived. Morons. Another guy shot his buddy in the leg, while sitting in the car, when he was unloading his rifle. Again, moron.
LOts of morons out there, and this idiot shooting at a bear in a tree in a residential neighborhood is certainly one of those.... MORONS....
Seems like we find more morons every year, don't we? FUBAR.