A woman was recovering after she was accidentally shot by her sister-in-law during a squirrel-hunting outing in Monterey County on Sunday, a sheriff’s sergeant said.
The shooter fired a Remington 20-gauge shotgun from about 70 yards away, and shotgun pellets hit the victim in the face, head, upper back and left arm, investigators said.
The victim was not wearing brightly colored safety gear and apparently blended into the scenery, sheriff’s Sgt. Kathy Palazzolo said.
“She was very lucky,” Palazzolo said.
The shooting appears to have been accidental, and no criminal charges will be filed, the sergeant said.
“It doesn’t sound like there was any ill will, they all get along well. It was just an unfortunate accident,” Palazzolo said.
First the idiot cop says it was the victim's fault for not wearing orange, then she dismisses the whole thing because there wasn't any "ill will." What there was was proof that the shooter was in violation of the basic safety rules, a strong indication that she's incapable of owning and using guns safely.
It's really discouraging that even in the relatively enlightened State of California gun misuse can go unpunished like this.
No charges in a case like this is a travesty of justice.
1. California and enlightened rarely belong in a sentence together, since that state only does something good every once in a while by accident.
ReplyDelete2. This is a case that's better covered by civil law than criminal, since the person responsible apparently didn't intend to cause harm.
Intentionality is not the only criterion. Gross criminal negligence is often unintentional.
DeleteYou're far too willing to call every unintended shooting, regardless of what gets hit or how the incident occurred, an act of gross criminal negligence.
DeleteIf it is unintended, it is negligence, since a gun owner should always have safe control of his gun.
DeleteYes, I am. Negligence is negligence. The act needs to be punished, independent of the damage or lack thereof.
DeleteBut Mikeb, that's not how American law works.
DeleteYou don't follow the law, and have said so many times. Quite funny how you now want to use the law to protect your rights.
DeleteAnonymous, prove it or stop lying.
DeleteAlready did prove it and you refuse to reply to that evidence proving me correct. Thanks.
DeleteAnother "I thought my hunting partner was a rabbit, a turkey, a chicken, or whatever the excuse of the day is.
ReplyDeleteAnother new member of the Dick Cheney hunting club.
California is doing economically better than most of the rest of the country, so your uneducated slur about California, is just another of your bullshit lies.
Yeah, Greg is a professor of higher education in Arkansas so he feels qualified to mock California the home of Stanford.
DeleteI know about California. It's voter initative system allows all kinds of spending to be required, while preventing taxes to pay for that spending. Medical marijuana became legal, but immigration reform was banned in the same year. Gay marriage became legal, then not, then legal again--the middle of that list because of voter initiative.
DeleteNo, the fact about California is that it's too big and too fractious.
Another lie from the site coward criminal liar. Do you ever know what you are talking about, or do you always just spew lying garbage?
DeleteIf you are out shooting with others and you are not wearing blaze orange, you are at fault and must bear some of the blame.
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