Reply #4: Seems to me "shot at" conveys intent

[tularetom]

Despite what Dobbs' overheated imagination has built this into, it appears that a stray round fired by a hunter in the nearby woods struck his house. Without the force to penetrate the vinyl siding for crissakes.

Anybody who lives in the country has had this experience. I've had the "No Trespassing" signs on my fence shot full of holes by people shooting at birds on the large acreage behind my. I've never had a deer hunter shoot one of my horses but I've heard stories.

I believe Dobbs, either intentionally or out of an exaggerated sense of his own importance is trying to inflate this silly event into something to further inflame anti immigrant sentiment among the hayseeds.