Hunter @ MindSay 
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This question I am going to ask actually hits close to home for my family. On the side of the shooter. I am going to be up front right off the bat.
Little back ground before I go to my question. Both sides of my family are HUGE hunters but my mom's family does more and does more what the gov't calls big game hunting. Deer. Don't ask my why they considered Deer big game but they do........again gov't idiots! I was in highschool when an incident concerning my Uncle, who is my current landlord happened. My cousins B, and J (Uncle's sons) and my uncle hunt their land and their land only. They also set aside so much of it for the area hunters to hunt and then set aside the real crap land near the hiways and such for the Southern Hunters. Well B, J, and uncle went to a deep field near another farmers fields and friends of theirs. Friends of my family also because we all went to church to gether and there was a girl my age and a girl my sisters age. Now your suppose to wear hunter orange while out especially if your out during hunting season! Saves your ass from being shot! Uncle, B and J took deer stands down in a wash out area and they all spotted what was thought of as a deer, B and J said take the shot Dad. My uncle took the shot. My uncle has never deer hunted since he took that shot and just now one of his brohters mentioned to him to go out with him...........the farmer that had fields next to my uncle's, his son who KNEW it was hunting season was out chasing down something and didn't wear hunters orange and all three of my fmaily memebers thought he was a deer! Shot him in the leg! Now my Uncle took full responsiblity, paid all the medical, paid for all the therapy. They called 911, they called the ambulance, they called the family. The families will be poliet to each other but that is about it because the family whose son was shot was told by their lawyer you can take it to court on a civil matter but you're ten to one going to loose because C (the guy that was shot) wasn't wearing orange, he was trespassing, and he KNEW it was hunting season.
What brought this all on? REmember a few years back that Hmong person shot and killed 3 hunters for no reason at all in WI? Well some dude shot a hmong person for no reason at all and then tried hidding the evidence.
Deep Question: Could you objectively go out hunting again or what ever it was you where doing when something like this happened, and see someone that looks similar or is even the same culture as the person who killed before, and NOT retaliate?
For our friend C who was accidently shot by my Uncle, can and has! It's his parents who still hold the grudge and C was an adult when it happened in the first place! C and B were highschool friends even though they didn't hang out. C has no problem hunting with B and J. And let me tell ya both my cousins with different hair colors, one light brown to blonde and the other with dark brown to black look just like my Uncle! Bult like him also.
Personally I don't think a lot of people can. I ask myself that question and I don't know if I can or not look at someone objectively if they are similar in apperance, behavor, and talk to someone who shot at me or one of my family memebers. I am hoping I never have to find out. Come one who would want to shoot me..........no comments from the peanut gallery!:P
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**** UPDATE ****
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