Cheney
My wife sent me the story of the vice presidents shooting his good friend when the story broke. I immediately wanted to cry FOR MANY REASONS. I felt bad for the man who was shot. Poor guy just wanted to pick up a downed bird and KABLAM he takes a shell in the face. He didn't deserve that. It wasn't right.
I also feel deeply for the vice president. I knew that the media was going to make this a story of national importance. And now many days have passed and they are still all over him. As a hunter myself I know the responsibility one must take when you pull that trigger. Life and death depend on the shooters vigilance about safety . In one split second tragedy can strike . It can strike be cause of absolute negligence or even when someone is trying to do everything right.
Dick Cheney didn't wake up that morning and decide to shoot one of his best friends in the face. He went to shoot a bird and and shot a man. He may have been totally negligent, I don't know.
I do know that in my life I have inflicted horrible injury on a person never ever intending to harm them . I weep thinking about it to this day. I can not take back what I did neither can Dick Cheney . He hasn't really commented on the shooting yet and people have been sharpening their knives for days. I know why he hasn't - and it has nothing to do with public opinion and scrutiny. The man shot himself when he shot his friend. He never thought that he could be the perpetrator of such a tragedy. Whether he was negligent or not HE IS RESPONSIBLE. It was his finger that pulled that trigger and he knows it. I believe that he should have spoken right away but I understand why he hasn't. Life sucks for him right now. People are laughing, blaming organizing anti gun and hunting crud but Cheney has to go this one by himself. His friend could have died ,Cheney probably wants to at moments.
We tend to disqualify certain people from being worthy of our compassion for one reason or the other. The man that got shot, he gets it, absolutely. But Cheney? Most people who are joking and commenting never liked him to begin with. I never much cared for him myself. But I have compassion for him. And yes, I have had a similar thing happen in my life. But I would like to think I would still have compassion for him.
I pray that no one else ever has to feel the pain of being the cause of a tragedy .
I also feel deeply for the vice president. I knew that the media was going to make this a story of national importance. And now many days have passed and they are still all over him. As a hunter myself I know the responsibility one must take when you pull that trigger. Life and death depend on the shooters vigilance about safety . In one split second tragedy can strike . It can strike be cause of absolute negligence or even when someone is trying to do everything right.
Dick Cheney didn't wake up that morning and decide to shoot one of his best friends in the face. He went to shoot a bird and and shot a man. He may have been totally negligent, I don't know.
I do know that in my life I have inflicted horrible injury on a person never ever intending to harm them . I weep thinking about it to this day. I can not take back what I did neither can Dick Cheney . He hasn't really commented on the shooting yet and people have been sharpening their knives for days. I know why he hasn't - and it has nothing to do with public opinion and scrutiny. The man shot himself when he shot his friend. He never thought that he could be the perpetrator of such a tragedy. Whether he was negligent or not HE IS RESPONSIBLE. It was his finger that pulled that trigger and he knows it. I believe that he should have spoken right away but I understand why he hasn't. Life sucks for him right now. People are laughing, blaming organizing anti gun and hunting crud but Cheney has to go this one by himself. His friend could have died ,Cheney probably wants to at moments.
We tend to disqualify certain people from being worthy of our compassion for one reason or the other. The man that got shot, he gets it, absolutely. But Cheney? Most people who are joking and commenting never liked him to begin with. I never much cared for him myself. But I have compassion for him. And yes, I have had a similar thing happen in my life. But I would like to think I would still have compassion for him.
I pray that no one else ever has to feel the pain of being the cause of a tragedy .
posted by Father Rich at 8:57 AM
4 Comments:
It's so hard, when you've done something wrong, to carry on. It's much easier when you've never done wrong. Guilt, and shame, and all of that eat a person from the inside.
Never done wrong... what does that feel like?
From Cheney's interview on MSNBC.com: “The image of him falling is something I’ll never ever be able to get out of my mind,” Cheney said. “I fired, and there’s Harry falling. It was, I’d have to say, one of the worst days of my life at that moment.”
I'm always wrong, doing or just being, don't know anything else.
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