The following will be all I’ll say about that:

-it served to bump serious issues aside in the media, so even if it was accidental it was beneficial to the administration.
-Dick Cheney seems like the type of person who would try to shoot someone & claim it was an accident. Not saying it was intentional, just that he’s the type to do that. Until I see a motive I’m not gonna say it was on purpose.
-it was yet another in a long line of true stories that sound so absurd that the jokes write themselves. This was like Christmas for comedians.

And with that, I leave you some expert testimony. Mr Knapp, take it away:

…let’s take a sober look at it. As a lifelong shooter, a graduate of the NRA’s hunter safety course when I was a kid, and a former Marine Corps marksmanship instructor who has conducted firearms safety training and served as a range safety NCO, I think I have my ticket punched to talk about this:

If you shoot someone, it’s not an “accident.” Period. It’s one of three things: It’s intentional, it’s negligent, or it’s a sign that the shooter is not competent to be handling a gun.

I don’t have to like Cheney to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he a) didn’t mean to shoot his friend and b) didn’t shoot his friend because he was being careless. But giving him the benefit of the doubt on those two counts narrows it down: Cheney isn’t competent.

Bush should look on the bright side: if he screwed up with a gun he’d probably shoot himself instead of someone else.

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