and mayhem:
Five hunters gunned down in Wisconsin woods
Sheriff's deputies are investigating the killings of five hunters Sunday in northwest Wisconsin -- bloodshed apparently sparked by a dispute over a hunting spot. A suspect has been arrested.
"This is completely nuts," said Chief Deputy Tim Zeigle of the Sawyer County Sheriff's Department. "Why? I mean, five people dead because somebody was trespassing on property. It makes no sense."
Three others were wounded, said Julie Veness, an emergency medical technician in Exeland, Wisconsin.
Saturday marked the opening of the nine-day deer season, and Veness said the shootings appeared to stem from a dispute over a deer stand -- an elevated position from which hunters can target deer.
The NRA will no doubt be working overtime over the Thanksgiving break to defuse this bombshell.
I wonder how sportsmen, as a whole, are going to take the whole thing? Seems to be a violation of every principle of gun safety and plain common courtesy.
Evidently, the shooter and trespasser was from Minneapolis and the victims were locals.
This being in the heartland and presumably prime whitetail country, the guy could have just fessed up that he made a mistake, picked up, and moved on or whatever.
Very strange, very strange indeed.