Leroy, I mean Dick Cheney

Wonder what it would be like to shoot a man at point blank range, about 3 feet away, three times and not get arrested or do any jail time? Well that’s what happened to the Vice President, Dick Cheney. Over the weekend, Cheney had shot and wounded a friend while out shooting people – I mean quail.

I guess having such name recognition was why it was not made open to the public for nearly a day after the event. How could it be, I mean a man is shot, and there is not police report or nothing on the news for an entire day? The man, Harry Whittington was hit in the face, neck and chest by the Vice President. At the time they were on a 5,000 acre private ranch south of San Antonio. First, how can you actually call yourself hunting when you are on a controlled ranch, with Quail that are farmed raised and can’t fly like real Quail?

All The Vice President got was a warning citation for not having a special bird-hunting stamp on a Texas hunting license he had purchased by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. I speculate if he was of a different hue, he would have gotten the complete business, let alone if it were Leroy Cheney we were talking about as opposed to Dick. I bet even if he dies, as a result of the heart attack he just had as a consequences of a piece of birdshot moving to his heart, the white man who shot him won't get charged with murder nor manslaughter.

So the long of it is if you are a white vice president, you can shoot a man three times, in the face even, at close range and say you were shooting at some birds that cannot fly. Instead of a mug shot, purp walk and finger prints, all you get is a warning and a fine of seven dollars, the cost of an upland game bird stamp.