Cheney never comes at you with a butcher's knife.
He prefers to become your friend over many years, have great experiences together, then shoot you in the face and make you apologize for your role in the incident.
He prefers to become your friend over many years, have great experiences together, then shoot you in the face and make you apologize for your role in the incident.
While it's primarily the responsibility of an upland bird hunter (anyone shooting, of course, but in this sort of hunting you move around a lot and flush out birds unexpectedly) to keep track of everyone and not shoot when any of them are down range, everyone in the hunting party also has a responsibility to follow previously agreed upon protocols to make this easier and less error prone. The guy who got shot screwed that up big time.
Of course A)as VP Cheney's life was already a media circus B) Cheney shot the dude in his face and assumed-risk-or-no Cheney bears the responsibility for that.
In ~70 years of it, one of my father's favorite pastimes, he got shot exactly once, although there was no excuse for it like there was in the Chaney accident. Then again, he was both careful in picking his hunting partners and only hunted with some of them once after they demonstrated they didn't have their act together.
As long as you wear glasses and there's some distance, serious injury is unlikely, as happened with him. A tough shirt is also recommenced, that stopped penetration of the shot that hit his chest.