Shut The Fucking Fuck Up

This is really not a very complicated thing. There are a series of facts in play here, to wit:

If you shoot someone--that is to say, if a gun goes off and hits someone, and you're the person who pulled the trigger--it's your fucking fault. The gun didn't shoot someone. You did. Just ask the fucking NRA. Ought to be easy enough; you're funding them. There is no explanation, there is no justification: it is your fault. You done wrong.

When you are a public official, and you shoot someone, and you deliberately contrive to keep the story out of the news for 24 hours, you have done a wrong thing. There is no explanation, there is no justification: it is your fault. You done wrong.

The Vice President shooting someone has nothing to do with Ted Kennedy being drunk 37 years ago, or with Bill Clinton smearing an intern's lipstick, or with Vince Foster's suicide (the latest in a pathetic series of non sequiturs raised by fascist apologist and self-loathing racist nightmare Michelle Malkin). If you see any connection between these events, I humbly suggest that you shut the fuck up before someone sensible deprives you of your privilege of communicating with the rest of humanity. Seriously. You're an embarrassment to protoplasm. Shut the fucking fuck up, you lying shitbird.

Historical comfort: the last Vice President to shoot someone while in office was also an unmitigated scumbag.