SHOOTING ACCIDENTS
Sir.—Mr Thompson is right. The Internal Affairs Department’s record of never killing a man during its many years of extensive operations proves that such accidents never need take place. The remedy is to place the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the man who pulls the trigger. It is not an accident that a rifle kills what it is aimed at; that is what it is designed for. If it is aimed at a man in mistake for a deer, that is carelessness. There is a Penalty for such carelessness already on the Statute hooks, it merely needs to be enforced. If aU shooters knew that they would be held responsible they would be much more careful as to the identity of their target and the hills would be safer for Shepherds, hikers, or even for shooting companions.-Yours, GRANTJune 2, 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23964, 3 June 1943, Page 6
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