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<blockquote data-quote="Prowler573" data-source="post: 1487060" data-attributes="member: 561023">Do we know for fact he wasn&#039;t properly licensed/stamped or is that conjecture by the media looking for a hook to use this incident to bury him?[Well, were it me and I had just shot someone accidentally I might be more concerned with getting the victim some medical attention ASAP than I would be about notifying the media of what had happened.I hadn&#039;t thought about it but I cannot say I would write this off as an impossibility.Like I mentioned earlier this type of accidental shooting happens each and every hunting season and gets no nationwide press coverage. Why should the shooter being someone of political importance make it more newsworthy? As for the other point.......it isn&#039;t everyday that the most powerful man in the free world is fooling around on his wife in the Oval Office and leaves himself open for getting caught. While I think it was incredibly ignorant at the time that Bill&#039;s indiscretions garnered as much press as they did I reckon I understand why the press latched onto it like a starving man being handed a sandwich.I&#039;ve never hunted in this fashion so I reckon I don&#039;t have much of an opinion on it. Only hunting I do with any degree of regularity is deer and then if it gets shot it gets eaten - no exceptions. This is up to and including a wild pig that was mistakenly shot by the 11yr old son of one of our lease members! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Prowler573, post: 1487060, member: 561023"] Do we know for fact he wasn't properly licensed/stamped or is that conjecture by the media looking for a hook to use this incident to bury him? [ Well, were it me and I had just [B]shot[/B] someone accidentally I might be more concerned with getting the victim some medical attention ASAP than I would be about notifying the media of what had happened. I hadn't thought about it but I cannot say I would write this off as an impossibility. Like I mentioned earlier this type of accidental shooting happens each and every hunting season and gets no nationwide press coverage. Why should the shooter being someone of political importance make it more newsworthy? As for the other point.......it isn't everyday that the most powerful man in the free world is fooling around on his wife in the Oval Office and leaves himself open for getting caught. While I think it was incredibly ignorant at the time that Bill's indiscretions garnered as much press as they did I reckon I understand why the press latched onto it like a starving man being handed a sandwich. I've never hunted in this fashion so I reckon I don't have much of an opinion on it. Only hunting I do with any degree of regularity is deer and then if it gets shot it gets eaten - no exceptions. This is up to and including a wild pig that was mistakenly shot by the 11yr old son of one of our lease members! [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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