No amount of education, experience or raw intelligence cancels out stupid decisions. They may, and should. prevent the stupid choices to begin with, but once made, they are made and people live, and die, from the consequences.
I'm in the Forrest Gump school about that, I believe "stupid is as stupid does", and my life experience has only proven that observation to be generally accurate. However, I also hold to the other side of the coin, and find some wisdom in the old saying "if its stupid, but it works, its not stupid".
You may be a papered, lettered expert, or have tens of thousands of hours experience in your chosen field(s) but if you are ignorant about firearms, and make "stupid" statements in your ignorance, then, you ARE stupid. And, the entire "bigger guns are more likely to go off" is, to me, a stupid statement.
I don't know anything about the incident other than what has been reported, but I cannot help think that careful aim for a vital spot is not what the woman did when she "emptied her pistol" without any effect on the angry moose. (also apparently no reload there....) Friend shows up with "a rifle" and one shot = dead moose.
Don't know the lady in question, but I'm certain she's a better musher than I am, is an ER nurse? ok better at medicine than I am, and I'd guess she makes quite a bit more money than I do, but what she said was "stupid" and what she did wasn't much more "intelligent" as far as I can see,
I'm in the Forrest Gump school about that, I believe "stupid is as stupid does", and my life experience has only proven that observation to be generally accurate. However, I also hold to the other side of the coin, and find some wisdom in the old saying "if its stupid, but it works, its not stupid".
You may be a papered, lettered expert, or have tens of thousands of hours experience in your chosen field(s) but if you are ignorant about firearms, and make "stupid" statements in your ignorance, then, you ARE stupid. And, the entire "bigger guns are more likely to go off" is, to me, a stupid statement.
I don't know anything about the incident other than what has been reported, but I cannot help think that careful aim for a vital spot is not what the woman did when she "emptied her pistol" without any effect on the angry moose. (also apparently no reload there....) Friend shows up with "a rifle" and one shot = dead moose.
Don't know the lady in question, but I'm certain she's a better musher than I am, is an ER nurse? ok better at medicine than I am, and I'd guess she makes quite a bit more money than I do, but what she said was "stupid" and what she did wasn't much more "intelligent" as far as I can see,