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Sim Tree: Am I the only one who learned "clearly identify your target before firing"? Did they stop requiring a safety class, before you're allowed to own firearms? I keep seeing reports of hunters shooting at anything that moves and accidentally murdering people. WTH? You're not in the middle of a firefight. Take the extra five seconds and pull the trigger only once you're SURE.

**** YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY GUN FREEDOMS

JungleBoogie: Bear indicating approval of his continuing existence:

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Don't ask don't tell. Oh wait, damn you Obama!

What is he doing hunting by Silver falls anyways? That is a major hiking area.

He deserves do be eaten by a bear.

Okay, this thread turned "fabulous" real fast...

Was probably coming right at him.

Can't wait 'til this guy shoots his grandson because he heard a noise at 2am and then realizes it was the kid tryin to take a leak.

Sim Tree: Am I the only one who learned "clearly identify your target before firing"? Did they stop requiring a safety class, before you're allowed to own firearms? I keep seeing reports of hunters shooting at anything that moves and accidentally murdering people. WTH? You're not in the middle of a firefight. Take the extra five seconds and pull the trigger only once you're SURE.

Funny, when I took my hunter safety class the main thing they discussed was the inevitability that hunters do stupid shiat. They tried to warn about some things, but ultimately the expectation was when you go hunting, avoid hunting with idiots.

It was not until some of my first dove hunts where there were other hunters on the field that I realized why hunters do stupid shiat. Being sober is merely a suggestion, not a requirement. CSB: My dad would take me hunting with his friends, but he refused to go on afternoon dove hunts alot of times because the guys would all get drunk at lunch, then head back out into the field afterwards. That was about the time he'd call it a day.

there is no pic of the marine


mabe he looked like this

Old man Cheney is at it again?

I think we need more pictures of bears. For comparison.

skinink: I think I may see the hunter's problem.

See what happens when you allow bears to serve openly?

seriously this guy isn't going to jail? FTA "I saw something move and shot it" - and that's legal?

Heck, if anyone you don't like ever goes into any wilderness, just murder them with a hunting rifle and tell the cops it was a terrible accident.

JungleBoogie: Bear indicating approval of his continuing existence:

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RIP Macho Man Randy Savage

ciberido: I think we need more pictures of bears. For comparison.

What a Jewish Bear might look like.

Right to BEAR arms???

Get it? The guy got killed by a gun.

Is this one of the consequences that opponents of repealing Don't Ask, Don't tell were saying would happen?

Accidental? When you fire at movement, and kill a man, that's not an accident, that's manslaughter. If he fired at a bear, and hit a man, that would be an accident, but he didn't fire at a bear, he fired at movement. A man's movement.

This guys should not be allowed to walk free. He farked up bad enough to get someone killed. He needs to serve some time....for at the very least, negligence resulting in homicide..

Ahhhg! pic was dropped.

Why no charges filed? Is it just me or is this always how these things turn out? There's no such thing as an "accidental" shooting.

KingoftheCheese: You say troll, I say delivering truth.

Someday, you too will turn 50.

If we let you.

RandomAxe: This is why, when you're in the woods, you should never carry a picture of what a bear might look like.

Hunter sees it through a scope, misunderstands, shoots. Game over.

Needs more commas.

I don't know, the guy does look like a bear,
but at the same time it seems clear that he is a Marine bear.

CSB TIME!

I was deer hunting one evening and 35min after sunset (no more hunting time) I was walking down a logging road to my dad's truck when a doe jumped out of the wood and stood 50 yards from me. I didn't pull up my gun to shoot for two reasons. First, It wasn't legal any more and second, another 100 yards beyond this deer was an old guy.

MFW I walked past him, he asked why I didn't shoot at the doe.

That bullet would have cleared the deer and probably shot the old guy or a truck.

/Always know your target and what is behind it, this BS is inexcusable.
//Wear orange during hunting season
///Charge him with manslaughter

"...authorities said the shooting appeared to be accidental a clear case of negligence."

FTFY, Marion County Sheriff's Office.

Pointy Tail of Satan: Not to jail. He needs to be able to pay off the multi-million dollar lawsuit.

This. The military generally takes destruction of government property seriously. If the guy won't be held to manslaughter charges, he should at least be billed for the cost of training the marine he killed.

Shooting at movement without a positive ID is some dumb shiat.

Sim Tree: Am I the only one who learned "clearly identify your target before firing"? Did they stop requiring a safety class, before you're allowed to own firearms? I keep seeing reports of hunters shooting at anything that moves and accidentally murdering people. WTH? You're not in the middle of a firefight. Take the extra five seconds and pull the trigger only once you're SURE.

This

Mama's Boy: Can't wait 'til this guy shoots his grandson because he heard a noise at 2am and then realizes it was the kid tryin to take a leak.

This too

Xai: seriously this guy isn't going to jail? FTA "I saw something move and shot it" - and that's legal?

Totally this...We're done here

/stupid people with guns annoy me

KingoftheCheese: I will volunteer to be put into a home. It would be my civic duty to do so, even if it was a civic duty that I myself invented.

Why wait? Go now.

He had been hiking with a friend through a field and was wearing dark clothes

How could he had been mistaken for a bear? Those animals don't have dark clothes.