2004-11-24
UNSPEAKABLE ACTS
Brent Good, a friend of one of the slain hunters, during a vigil for the victims, Birchwood, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Tragedy | It doesn't matter at all what Chai Soua Vang might say in his own defense in the murder of six other hunters while hunting without permission in a treestand on someone else's property | Preliminary reports suggest he may have been a knowledgable hunter, that he certainly knew his weapon [begs some questions about allowing ordinary people possess assault rifles, however] and, quite evidently, he was a skilled marksman | But his action was ~ and is ~ unconscionable |
Claiming he didn't know he was on private property doesn't cut it | He had to have known that just because he came upon a tree stand, it
wasn't his to perch from | Nor, regrettably, does his statement that racial slurs were used by the hunters who confronted him about hunting on private land | Just doesn't justify what he did |
If the action raises raical tensions, that's wrong too, though probably would not be surprising | It was not a nation who killed the others, however, but an individual | Hopefully, cooler heads than Mr. Vang's will prevail in the coming days and weeks during the inevitable trial | My heart goes to the families of those who died |
Brent Good, a friend of one of the slain hunters, during a vigil for the victims, Birchwood, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Tragedy | It doesn't matter at all what Chai Soua Vang might say in his own defense in the murder of six other hunters while hunting without permission in a treestand on someone else's property | Preliminary reports suggest he may have been a knowledgable hunter, that he certainly knew his weapon [begs some questions about allowing ordinary people possess assault rifles, however] and, quite evidently, he was a skilled marksman | But his action was ~ and is ~ unconscionable |
Claiming he didn't know he was on private property doesn't cut it | He had to have known that just because he came upon a tree stand, it
wasn't his to perch from | Nor, regrettably, does his statement that racial slurs were used by the hunters who confronted him about hunting on private land | Just doesn't justify what he did |
If the action raises raical tensions, that's wrong too, though probably would not be surprising | It was not a nation who killed the others, however, but an individual | Hopefully, cooler heads than Mr. Vang's will prevail in the coming days and weeks during the inevitable trial | My heart goes to the families of those who died |
CONTINUED COVERAGE AT: Duluth News Tribune | PIX FROM: CNN
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