Guys, there’s a lesson to be learned here, and it’s been missed entirely. Missed by the bad reporter in the Original post, and anyone commenting so far. No, it’s not, ‘watch out for felons with guns’, when the shooter put his boots on that day, he was not a felon. No, ‘it’s not the system is corrupt’, 12 fair and impartial people spent 3 days on this. The fact that it took 3 days, suggests there is a lot more to it than you can decide in 3 minutes. Ever been on a jury? Try telling the judge you make a great juror, you only need 3 minutes to decide.
The element not spoken of here so far, was mentioned by the reporter who wrote “
Death in the woods ”. It jumped out to me quickly.
The guy who got shot in this tragedy made a big mistake, and it contributed to costing him his life. And we know, life is not fair. If you come away with anything from this my friends, it is…
WEAR YOUR BLAZE ORANGE!!!
The world is full of idiots, during gun deer season there are idiots with guns. For some, this is the only time they will handle a gun all year, some are hung over, some have missed opportunities in the past because they acted to slow are ready to shoot anything that moves, quickly. How do we protect ourselves from idiots with guns? We wear blaze orange!
I’ve been traveling northern Wisconsin for nearly 40 years, along with 500,000 other hunters. It seems I read a story like this every year.
Over the years, family, kids and grand kids have traveled with me to hunt or just spend Thanksgiving at the cabin. And they know, the lesson of blaze orange does not stop at the woods. Whether it’s the family track star that wants out go out for a jog, walk the dog, or the kids that just want to play in the yard. Wear your blaze orange that week! You could be jogging down the road, totally in the right. But you’d be dead right. If you came across an idiot with a gun that had been willing-himself to see a deer for days.
