Young hunter who killed hiker gets 30 days

Wash. teen apologizes to victim's family after mistaking woman for bear.
 

updated 4:40 a.m. CT, Sat., July 11, 2009

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Not knowing the whole story I have to agree. 30 days is in no way long enough. It is a shame this happened. I feel for both families.

Tragic in every sense of the word, but again, HOW do these people -- in this case a kid -- PASS Hunter's Safety Courses? 
 
These cases simply boggle my mind.  I cannot for the life of me understand or comprehend how anyone can mistake a HUMAN BEING for a bear, a deer, an elk, etc.  Un-DIRTY WORD-believable!!
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve  

I just do not understand the sentences tha.y hand out these days. You can kill someone and walk away from it. This is certainly not teaching this child responsibility. Our system is supposed to be about TRUTH and Justice, well that's all gone to the dogs. Now it's about finding some technicality so that the guility can walk.

The freshest tracks still have feet in them.

We live in a society in which the only people that have rights are the criminals. The victims and their families have little if any rights. If anything the older brother should have received the 30 days in jail and probation and the minor should have gotten juvi jail till 21 and then adult prison for another 10-15 years. It is a shame that our justice system is soooooo screwed up. Just look at the sentence that the NFL player Stallworth just received down in Miami. He was driving drunk and killed a man running across the road, he only received 30 days in jail...30 FRICKING DAYS for killing a man when driving drunk!! I'm sorry, but I just do not get it....I don't get it all.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Our justice system absolutely sucks and yet all we hear is they want our guns because that is the problem!!!

Mike Stephenson
aka Topgun----30-06

I read story one time about a guide in Co that had his horse shot out from underneith him by a hunter who thought it was an elk. The guide found the hunter, grabbed his gun and broke and bent it around a tree, beat his a$$ and then called the law. The hunter lost his hunting priveledges for a long time over it. It never did say where he shot it at, but in my mind, if it were a good shot in the boiler room, how could he have not seen the guides legs or saddle hanging down? 

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

I was hunting in Colorado back in 1991 near Meeker when a horse was shot with the guide on it. I agree that anyone who shoots someone should face the punishment no matter their age.

Remember if you want to see big ones next year, let the small ones walk this year.
GOD is GOOD

LM-NAHC LM-NRA M-RMEF

May be the same one I was talking about.

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member