Monday, January 6, 2014

South Carolina Formerly Lawful Gun Owner Gets a Year for Accidentally Killing his Friend

A South Carolina man now knows he will spend a year in prison for accidentally shooting his friend on Christmas Day of 2011. 
According to the Island Packet, 33 year old Andrew Bogart pleaded guilty last month to involuntary manslaughter. 
Sheriff's deputies say Bogart loaded his pistol on Christmas day of 2011 and then began passing it around to his friends. But then the gun fired while Bogart was aiming it at 25 year old Adrian Hilliard. Hilliard was struck in the head and killed.
Bogart ran away before deputies arrived to make the arrest.

13 comments:

  1. No charges yet with this one.
    http://www.oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/2014/01/coyote-eyes.html

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    1. Stupid hunters who think they're absolved from practicing the basic safety rules should go to jail for a little while and lose their guns forever.

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  2. "Sheriff's deputies say Bogart loaded his pistol on Christmas day of 2011 and then began passing it around to his friends."

    This guy is a real numb-nuts. Perhaps things are different in his world, but in mine, the standard is to clear the weapon before passing it to another to "look" at it, and hand it to the other person with the action open so they can also check to insure the weapon is unloaded. At least that is what I'm drilling into my childrens' heads.

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    1. And the person that is handed the weapon, should also point it in a safe direction and re-check to make sure it is empty before examining it. I always do as a safety precaution before I look at a possible purchase.

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    2. Why pass around a gun? I thought we all could agree that they are not toys. It's not a guitar or anything of beauty. It's not art. It's a weapon for killing people. Why would anybody in their right mind teach their children to own firearms?

      No. No guns. You are teaching your children to acquire weapons...? What could you possibly be thinking? People don't need guns. Why would you teach such a barbarian practice to your own children? Keep your guns hidden. Keep them a secret. Are you kidding? Children?

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    3. The problem is too many gun owners are not interested in safety. And you can bet their fathers drilled it into their heads. It's just that a certain percentage of them are unreachable. They need to be screened out.

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    4. Forgive me. I was just very shocked. My grandson is going to get a custom-build sixteen-speed lightweight bicycle for his twelfth birthday. It's going to be a real beauty. A red Motobecane. Old-school all the way. Eight up and eight down with stem shifters and trick handlebars. It even has 650 mm wheels. I found a Japanese manufacturer that sells gum sidewall tires. And each boy will eventually get a Zefal classic re-issue frame pump.

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    5. In your world Greg the lying criminal coward can say nothing wrong. So we know you you agree with his criminal statements making you a lying criminal. A disgrace to the uniform you wear.

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    6. "So we know you you agree with his criminal statements making you a lying criminal."

      Anon, did you accidentally post to the wrong thread? Because I don't see any comments from Greg on this thread at all.

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    7. Flying Junior, many guns are objects of beauty, being finely crafted machines. And teaching children to use them is giving them a skill that they will have to hunt or to defend their lives or possibly to defend the nation.

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    8. Not at all. You defend his criminal statements, even answer questions he refuses to answer. Two liars in a pod. Two cowards who lie to defend their criminal statements.

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  3. A year for causing a death? This is why laws have to get stricter.

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    1. If he'd been black, it wouldn't have been only a year. But, the fat white gun-rights defenders deny that.

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