firedoglake: 02/12/2006 - 02/18/2006

firedoglake: 02/12/2006 - 02/18/2006

Look at this post, and read back on the previous posts. I'm from Texas, and if Cheney had done this to me I'd have broken his shotgun over his head. You shouldn't be allowed to have a gun if you don't know how to use one safely. You shouldn't be allowed to have an army if you can't direct one safely.

No One Is Above the Law, Not Even the Veep

According to the Texas Health and Safety Code, Section 161.041. MANDATORY REPORTING OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS:

A physician who attends or treats, or who is requested to attend or treat, a bullet or gunshot wound, or the administrator, superintendent, or other person in charge of a hospital, sanitorium, or other institution in which a bullet or gunshot wound is attended or treated or in which the attention or treatment is requested, shall report the case at once to the law enforcement authority of the municipality or county in which the physician practices or in which the institution is located.

I would assume that such a report requires something more than just a quick phone call, as in paperwork and other information to be filed along with the expected police report from any investigation which is done into the VP's shooting incident. Will we ever see it? No idea, especially given how the local Sheriff has made no public statement and hasn't been all that forthcoming as to what has been done in any investigation that may have gone on thus far.