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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsbeing a hunter does not make any one a competent gun owner
it might be a slightly better excuse than "my precious" by itself.
But I suspect that most people who know a dozen hunters, know that at least a couple of them are irresponsible and that makes them dangerous.
My recollection from my teen years when I lived in the country was the hunters gathering for Morning Services before dawn.
I knew to stay out of the woods during hunting season because my neighborhood hunters were juiced before daybreak.
So instead of thinking of your own wonderful self when you think of the need to prevent gun control, think of the idiots you know who own guns. Because you are enabling the idiots as well as fine upstanding people like yourself.
samsingh
(17,599 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)or fallen out of tree stands.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)We rural hunters hate them exactly because a lot of them are dangerous numbskulls.
But this is in Minnesota, the culture is probably different, elsewhere.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)not visiting one-day-a-year hunters.
There are plenty of rural fools, just like there are suburban fools, or urban fools.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Upper-middle class people from exurban communities NW of the Twin Cities (the same idiots who elected crazy-ass Bachmann) have a really bad reputation, here.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)overall because they don't have the experience and they are trying to make sure they take full advantage of their
once in a year opportunity which makes them a little trigger happy.
But I know plenty of rural fools, and those fools tend to be worse when they are young or under the influence.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)shot to hell by buckshot?
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)than the rest of us.
Especially now with meth
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)nt