if one hot-tempered gun owner shoots another hot-tempered gun owner in the woods, does anyone care?

I hoipe that the shooter took into consideration that he could have taken this mans life. Was it worth that! Did the shooter think about the consequences of his actions before he shot the man? I sincerely doubt it! I surely hope the shooter gets a long prison sentence so that he can think about how serious his actions were. He could have took another mans life for God's sake. How would he have felt then? What about that? THROW THE KEY AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man (with gun) hunting on private property WITHOUT permission is trespassing. Hunting friend (with gun) and landowner have every right to protect their property. My opinion is that great restraint was practiced by only shooting him in the leg.

Dude should know better. He is a cop.

There isn't a lot of mileage between Pennsylvania and this incident. It is possible that the man from PA had shot a deer and was tracking it down. This would make sense because his gun was unloaded, which in many cases you know you are tracking your injured animal, which you are legally bound and able to do, and you will be crossing unknown land. It's one thing to be tracking and another to be Hunting and Trespassing. I am waiting to see the outcome.

What a pair of lamebrains! This is an excellent example of why I never did get into hunting. You don't know who or what you might run into and what their intentions are.

To the idiot who did the shooting I have but two questions. Why didn't you and your friend simply cll the police and/or DNR and have them do what we pay them to do and arrest the idiot and charge him with trespassing? Why was it so important to stop him from what he was doing that you found it necessary to shoot the guy? You give all gun owners a bad name. I hope that you are convicted in court, that you spend every last dime you ever saved in your life defending yourself, and then spend the rest of your life trying to answer the question "What was I thinking?"

To the imbecile who was shot I have two questions. What was SO IMPORTANT about hunting on this piece of land? Were you about to shoot and disable a goose that lays golden eggs and this was your chance to find wealth beyond your wildest dreams? For you I hope that you recover, but that you are in pain for the rest of your life and spend your days asking yourself the same question the other idiot (the one who shot you), "What was I thinking?"

While it might seem that being shot in the leg is a minor thing, the man could have died if the aim was just in the right spot and hit a major artery. I think both were lucky that it didn't end up being more serious than it already is. Such a senseless thing when you really think about it.

The victim did nothing wrong. He was tracking a deer that he shot te night earlier ( on state grounds). When he gets called over , by Heymann, to the private property. This is where he was shot. He did nothing wrong. And after getting his upper thigh blasted, the two guys let him lay there for a while, bleeding out. This man needs to go to jail.

Trespassing or not you don't take the law into your own hands and shoot someone. I'd like to hear the shooting victim's side of the story so far all we have heard is the story of the shooter and his good old boy huntin' buddy. Maybe a journalist will grow a pair and write that story.

Nick I look forward to your follow up after interviewing Mr Kinney. I'm also impressed that you read these posts and take the time to respond to them.

Gregwardo where are you getting your facts from? I've googled the crap out of this story and have found nothing about Kinney. And how are people going to get there fact right if this type of info is not available? People can only form an opinion based on the information that they are given. Please update us on where your facts are coming from.

Really....

Theirs NO STATE GAME LANDS in this area to hunt. The "so called" victim was a poacher and a trespasser and probably the one who instigated this entire incident. I wonder what DNR violations were handed down that morning. I only hope as they were carting his a$$ in the ambo, they also said…here you go buddy. This is how we deal with you poachers in MD.
#1. Hunting without permission on private property
#2 Probably hunting without safety orange (since he was trespassing)
#3. Trespassing
#4. Hunting on state property without permission

Who is in the wrong here? The guy who had permission or the bonehead who didn’t?

I only wish I was a bird with a voice and witnessed this incident. As I stated in another post....where was this clown parked, who provided him the permission to be ON STATE LAND. We here in MD don’t take kindly to other’s trespassing on PRIVATE PROPERTY. Lick your wounds and stay the heck in PA...on your state game land!

O.....I also hear he didnt have a MD license!! How funny that is. Why did he shoot the deer the night before? I guess it ran from PA to MD? Please tell me why he was trespassing in MD on PRIVATE property. WHat goes around, comes around!! POACHER!

You know what they say, "It all comes out in the wash". I just hope that someone does the laundry soon and the facts come out. I also hope that I never wander onto anyone else's land and they give me a warning shot in the leg. If Kinne was a hemophialiac then he could have bled to death. Did the shooter even consider that? He should be charged with the harshest of punishments and spend some time in the pokey with some of the people he put in there. I wonder how that would go. Has anyone researched if he used his service weapon while on duty while being a cop and was it justified?