9 Year-Old Shot After Being Mistaken For A Skunk

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**Frazzled**

Huffy wrote:
Troy wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
Yes, because clearly an idiot who mistakes a small child in a costume for a skunk and immediately decides "Hey, I'ma gonna shoot dat skunk!" needs to own a weapon capable of killing people.

/sarcasm

At least Captain Meth wasn't in a car and wasting entire families. We should have a law about that.

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Kanluwen wrote:
Guns have no purpose beyond killing things.

So says the government employee with a vested interest in an unarmed populace.

I sincerely hope this is sarcasm....you do realize that civilians armed with pistols and hunting rifles really don't present much of a challenge to a professional army right??

This is true. It helps to have a cowed public though, so they can do their jobs.
Police also love the First Amendment. Sorry, but I don't want my fundamental right defined by The Man.

**hotsauceman1**

I have a question, Obviously this lady can be charged with something? What would it be?
Unlawful Discharge of a weapon? Unlawful use of a weapon?
Or attempted manslaughter?

**AustonT**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
I have a question, Obviously this lady can be charged with something? What would it be?
Unlawful Discharge of a weapon? Unlawful use of a weapon?
Or attempted manslaughter?

Unlawful use of a weapon? I wanted to believe you made that up. Even if he was in Illinois that wouldn't be on the table, it seems to be more of a possession law.. I'm not sure if they have a similar law in PA but in MT he could look at Criminal Endangerment; but he probably will not be charged at all.

The best part seems to be that he wasn't a drunk hillbilly siting on the porch. Nature vs Nurture wins again.

ROCHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A woman hosting a Halloween party shined a light for her son to help him shoot what they thought was a skunk but was really his 8-year-old cousin in a black-and-white costume, police said.

The girl, who was hit in the shoulder, arm, back and neck, was hospitalized Monday in critical condition following Saturday night's shooting in Rochester, a rural area about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh where firearms and hunting are common.

The woman hosting the party, Janet Grant, told police officers someone told her at around 8:30 p.m. there was a skunk nearby and she asked her son to shoot it, New Sewickley Township police Chief Ronald Leindecker said Monday, according to the Beaver County Times.

The son, 24-year-old Thomas Grant, grabbed a shotgun while his mother pointed the beam of a flashlight at a nearby hillside, Leindecker said. Grant spotted what he thought was a skunk under a tree and fired, the chief said, but then he heard a scream from his cousin.

**Frazzled**

The fun part. As noted why on earth would you shoot a skunk near your house. I agree that Captain Meth and Colonel Jim Beam were involved.

**AustonT**

Frazzled wrote:
The fun part. As noted why on earth would you shoot a skunk near your house. I agree that Captain Meth and Colonel Jim Beam were involved.

I think good old fashioned Uncle Stupidity was alone on this one.

**hotsauceman1**

Frazzled wrote:
The fun part. As noted why on earth would you shoot a skunk near your house. I agree that Captain Meth and Colonel Jim Beam were involved.

I know, if its on your property, you are responsible for removing it depending on where you live.

**Jihadin**

Double line garbage bag and a shovel for the skunk.......a 9 yrs old kid though a new ballgame....

**AustonT**

Shes not dead...

**Jihadin**

Whoops....um call 911 and hide the meth and Beam

**TheCaptain**

Aw man, this was in my town.

Embarrassing.

**AustonT**

TheCaptain wrote:
Aw man, this was in my town.

Embarrassing.

Is meth an issue there?
Do you know these people?
Are they tarded?
Can you get me a case of ying ling...yes I'm aware it's not spelled that way.

**sebster**

Huffy wrote:
I sincerely hope this is sarcasm....you do realize that civilians armed with pistols and hunting rifles really don't present much of a challenge to a professional army right??

It's not so much that. It's more that in order to have any meaningful threat to a government, your revolution needs a sophisticated cell structure that can deliver mutual support, while also maintining individual cell isolation, so that if one cell is compromised then other cells aren't also threatened. Manage to achieve that, and getting guns is a piece of cake.

That's always the thing that blows my mind about the gun nut fantasy - they think the hard thing is getting your hands on a gun, and once you've got that you're an effective guerilla fighter. What's hard is maintaining cell security, while compromising the security efforts of government.

**Frazzled**

sebster wrote:
Huffy wrote:
I sincerely hope this is sarcasm....you do realize that civilians armed with pistols and hunting rifles really don't present much of a challenge to a professional army right??

It's not so much that. It's more that in order to have any meaningful threat to a government, your revolution needs a sophisticated cell structure that can deliver mutual support, while also maintining individual cell isolation, so that if one cell is compromised then other cells aren't also threatened. Manage to achieve that, and getting guns is a piece of cake.

That's always the thing that blows my mind about the gun nut fantasy - they think the hard thing is getting your hands on a gun, and once you've got that you're an effective guerilla fighter. What's hard is maintaining cell security, while compromising the security efforts of government.

Vietn Minh and then the Viet Cong did it just fine thanks. Now go back to Australia and tell how the drop bear outbreaks are doing.

**reds8n**

Frazzled wrote:

Vietn Minh and then the Viet Cong did it just fine thanks.

One would suggest this is related to them adopting quite successfully the tactics outlined by Mr. Sebster.

**Kilkrazy**

The one thing the Viet Mihn did not do was to buy their guns in shops because the government was prevented by the constitution from stopping them because they had bought enough guns in shops to stop the government from closing the shops.

**Jihadin**

Russia had that Walmart of fire power store to sell to the VC and NVA. in Bulk discount

**Frazzled**

Kilkrazy wrote:
The one thing the Viet Mihn did not do was to buy their guns in shops because the government was prevented by the constitution from stopping them because they had bought enough guns in shops to stop the government from closing the shops.

But what if they had bought their guns in shops despite the government preventing their buying firearms in shops, and that those shops in turn went with their shopping lists to bigger shopped where they shopped for the best prices at those shops?

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Jihadin wrote:
Russia had that Walmart of fire power store to sell to the VC and NVA. in Bulk discount

I hear you can get good deals at that shop. Just tell 'em Uncle Joe sent you.

**matapata98**

I just looked at the title and wait what?
somehow I don't think these people were completely clear headed