Vice-President Cheney was involved in a hunting accident over the course of this past weekend. Thankfully, it seems as though it could have turned out far worse and everyone involved is doing well.

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday. Harry Whittington, 78, was “alert and doing fine” after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and accidentally hit Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital by ambulance.Cheney’s spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.(Isn’t sad that my first reaction upon hearing this story was to speculate as to how the left would manipulate the story?)

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UPDATE:

Oblogatory Anecdotes brings to the table quite a prescient observation. Your humble pundit’s gut reaction, after learning that all parties involved were in good condition, was to consider how this would be used politically. Oblogatory Anecdotes opines,

This will undoubtedly re-ignite the gun debate in this country and I’m sure Sarah Brady and the anti gun forces will take full advantaging of it. They have been waiting eagerly for a high profile incident like this to make their case that guns must be banned, because they can accidentally hurt people. The problem with this argument is that many things can hurt people that we do not ban.