ORIGINAL: blumpie
This is just sad. I can almost, Almost, ALMOST understand shooting at a clearly identified deer, missing, and hitting an unseen hunter 100's of yards away (stray bullet) but shooting in the dark (assuming after shooting hours) is pure carelesness.
Carelessness is leaving the toilet seat up .
This is criminal and should be treated as so. Putting these shooters in prison serves no purpose it will not bring back the dead or help the grieving ,but with that said community service of thousands of hours is an option ,make them speak at high schools, hunter safety classes ,churchcamps any where young people gather .Maybe somethinggood would come from these tragedies.
These cases are not nearly as rare as they should be.
AS man I worked for was killed by a man on the other side of a field shooting at a buck that was driven across the field by friends. One shot to the Chest and his life was over.