and if this had happened on an inner city street corner????????

[bobbieinok]

[punpirate]

1. Some homie...

... would be in jail....

[Journeyman]

2. Someone would have been arrested for being a moron. . .

not much quail to flush from the sidewalks and alleys of a typical inner city neighborhood. . .

now, we used to hunt snipe on occasion, but that's another story. . .

[KharmaTrain]

3. The Local Federales Wouldn't Be Waiting 24 Hours To Act

Also, you wouldn't have had a friend call the local paper to spin the news headlines either.

That said...there are some apples and oranges here. The gun violence in the inner city is more akin to terrorism. The people shooting and being shot on the streets of virtually very major city in this country are ignored. While Crashcart's shooting happened while "relaxing", the shootings in the inner city happen cause of desperation. Both shooters do have one thing in common...a disregard for the value of life and how their own importance means the taking of that other life...be it a human or a bird...it doesn't matter when someone feels they have "power" behind a gun.

People who die on our city streets are victims of Dick Chenney...and the politics of racism and economic class warfare played by his ilk.

[cali]

4. Bad comparison

I live in an area where there's a LOT of hunting, ergo quite a few hunting accidents, pretty unlikely you'd see an arrest with facts like these.