Sunday, February 19, 2006
goofy
It's not as if the world needs another comment on Cheney or hunting but I have to clear my head of some of the things I keep thinking as I read what's said by mainstream and even blog media. I am not a fan of guns anyway because it seems to me that a person who has a gun is way too likely to actually use it and quite probably in a haze of fear or anger, neither of which go hand-in-hand with good judgment, you know? Also, habitués of quail and target hunting usually know the rules and are super attentive to their own and other people's presence, so it's pretty clear this was just exactly what they're saying, namely, an accident. But a stupid accident, no matter how horrible, isn't a deliberate act, and even if Cheney wanted to blow his friend to blazes, it's dumb to call him a terrorist. Careless, maybe. Someone you don't like, maybe. Oddly reserved, maybe. Lots of things. But not a terrorist. Especially while calling those who riot and murder about publishing cartoons 'protestors'. Words have got to resume meaning what they mean or we're going to lose whatever slim chance we may have had of rationally dealing with the highly-charged world as it is at present.
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