Ginny asked why the Secret Service allowed someone with a loaded gun 
to be in the VP's presence.

I'm not an expert on the Presidency or Presidential and V. 
Presidential recreation, but I don't think hunting trips like this 
are all that new.  For example, Teddy Roosevelt and LBJ were hunters. 
Certainly some Presidents and VPs have gone on hunting trips in which 
the Pres. or VP (or both) and their hunting friends were all carrying 
loaded firearms.

I read in some Kennedy biography (or heard on some PBS show) that 
when JFK was President, LBJ invited JFK and RFK to Texas for a 
hunting trip.  Apparently JFK and RFK accepted the invitation 
reluctantly, and did not enjoy the trip very much.

And hunting accidents certainly happen.  My torts casebook included 
Summers v Tice, 33 Cal 2d 80, 199 P 2d 1 (Cal. 1948) in which three 
friends were hunting quail and one of the hunters shot his friend by 
mistake.

Dan Levin
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>If Cheney shot this guy, this guy could have shot Cheney. What was anyone
>doing with a loaded gun in the presence of the vice president? The secret
>service must be apoplectic (how do you spell apoplectic?).
>
>Ginny