ES, if the person who was shot approached the hunting party without announcing his presence, he wasn't following normal guidelines. Just like the person who backs out without looking and gets hit is at fault, but there's no hunting insurance to make people follow the "rules of the woods" as it were.

The media was contacted less than 24 hours after the incident, but the national media didn't pick the story up off of the wire until late in the afternoon. It was a private hunting trip, and unlike the President, the VP doesn't have a press pool that follows him around.