Along with fishing, hunting is big in Northern Michigan, both as a
hobby and lifestyle and, increasingly in bad economic times, as a way
to provide meat for one's family. Up in Cheboygan County, where my
family has a summer cabin, gun shops and taxidermy studios are as
common as rare-book stores and coffee shops are near my year-round
home. It's just part of the culture. So when hunter Crystal Sherwood
accidentally shot up a daycare center last November, inflicting minor
wounds on two young children, the local reaction was, "accidents
happen!"
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