"But $10,000 remuneration plus jail-time, doesn't bring Miss Ives back."
Nothing can properly compensate a dead person--it's already happened and can't be reversed. Does it make it likely that fewer people will be shot by others in future under comparable circumstances? Maybe, or maybe not. For a while the incident and following events raised awareness on both sides, which hopefully counts for something.
people have to be held accountable.
you can't let people go free, fines and jail time is to set an example and make other hunters think about identifying their target because others have gone to jail for killing people without identifying their target.
most hunters get off without prosecution, at the end of the day they have committed manslaughter through their own fault.
you cant have people discharging weapons because they think they have identified their prey.
you can just label these scenarios as accidents,
the trigger was pulled deliberately based on false assumptions and inadequate verifying of the target
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10801473
http://www.police.govt.nz/news/updates/31459
At night. Part of a shooting group that split up. Is that like asking for trouble ?.
It's a bit like watching NASCAR & thinking it remarkable there's a crash ?.
"It's not the drivers fault. He was drunk." "It's not the shooters fault. He guessed at what he was shooting at".
I suspect the number of humans 'accidentally' shot as a percentage of rounds sold per year is infintisimal, but it's unneccessary.
why dont they wear something reflective that shows up when the light hits it, something too big to be a deer's eye.
you think with all the other deaths around anyone with some intelligence would take more care or work out a strategy s they dont create another statistic. thers too many people going off without enough thought into what they are doing, young men with too many hormones and itchy trigger fingers who dont think it could happen to them, but hang on, it is happening over and over this autumn
Another one.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7631667/Police-find-shot-hunters-body
What has happened this year It seems to me there have been more fatalities from hunting carelessness in the last 12 months than the whole of the last 10 years combined. Have people got complacent, got careless? What is going on? This should clearly not be happening.
and its a mixture of people as well. the last one was a veteran, this time it's young males....
you expect the young ones to be more likely to make the mistake but even an ex branch chairman of the deerstalkers didnt identify his target... maybe its just a bad year.... once the adrenaline gets going, the thinking is less clear... hunters are assuming they know what they are aiming at when they don't..
it was another experienced hunter,, and experienced in firearms safety,, they think they have the safety sussed but they don't http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10832537
Tragic. I think they need to look at the issue of mindset. I believe these people have actually identified their target and seen a deer. The problem is they are so wound up in their hunt that they get into a mindset. I have experienced this in the bush when alone, you see what you believe is there. Hunters need to pay mote attention to this rather than just day a basic rule was broken.