Accident or right to blame?

[eduardo]

Take a look at this article that has been making the news for a while down our way.



So I ask the question:

Was this a tragic accident or is it right to blame someone?

I raise the point as we always seem to live in a blame culture these days and nothing ever seems to be categorised as an accident.

I know this guy has pleaded guilty and has admitted being negligent etc etc etc but is there a case for saying the man has suffered enough and that he has to live with the burden of guilt for the rest of his life?

For the record I believe he's suffered enough.

Your opinions please.

[RetroDon]

The "blame" culture, where every accident has a culprit, is one of the many things that disgust me in society. The CPS has to "blame" someone, the solicitors that run the country make a mint and every one's a winner.. except those who have tragic accidents. This is a good example, but personally I find the real tragedy is how the bastardo's in law have ensured that forgiveness and empathy are lost in haze of finger-pointing meanness and calculating greed. It is completely sickening how much people have been brain-washed, if we applied the same yardstick to everything we do there will be no hope.
Every time there's a bad casualty or fatality, someone has to live with being the cause of that. We don't need some pompous bent judge deciding they must spend 3 years inside a prison with convicted thieves and murderers on top of that, it means jack all except money for those in law, or some bitter relative stoked by the red hot pokers they call lawyers spending the rest of their lives not being able to forgive someone for something that happended unintentionally. These people need counselling not punishment 15 times over.
The current climate f**ks over those that cause accidents, and it f**ks over those who suffer the bereavement by not allowing matters to rest.

[Peter]

Blame. He shot at something that he obviously hadn't clearly identified.

[nachovx]

No one to blame, it was an accident. If there is going to be hunting there will be tragic accidents and deaths.

[diplodocus]

what purpose would punishing the bloke further serve, none

he'll be suffering for the rest of his life, leave it alone now

[eduardo]

Read this in the local paper today and it is a quote from Detective Sergeant Paul Bean. He said:

"Phillip Rowes guilty plea shows this was not a tragic accident but was a criminal act of gross negligence which resulted in the unlawful killing of a young boy which was totally unnecessary and avoidable.

I hope this case will send a message to other people involved in lamping or other firearms pursuits that they are under a duty to take all due care and from the outset of the case it was clear to us that this was case that needed investigating."

Make your own mind up about it.

[RetroDon]

It's always the same though, isn't it?
The woman who's negligent driving caused the death her daughter and another girl had to be "sentenced" to give an example to others who are thinking about causing an accident and killing their kids, that poor bastard who spent all night on the internet and had the audacity to then drive his Land Rover onto a railway line, deliberately causing a mass casualties had then to be punished by the law in order to give an example to others not to drive when tired, and never to lose concentration when driving.

Having to live with the results of causing the accidents is punishment enough for 99% of people, many never recover from the trauma and it does in fact kill some of them.
Where the hell is this all leading??

[mart]

Always glad to read the views of an expert.
But what qualifies you?

Mart

[Steve R]

Sometimes bad things happen and they are just accidents.

We dislike that and seek to apportion blame if at all possible.

It makes life seem less tenuous and we feel safer that way.

[eduardo]

Is this post directed at me Mart?