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In reply to the discussion: Hunting, just a bad idea to go after this as if it were evil. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)what we both need to figure out is how to approach our local hunters, most don't even have the fancy rifles that look like assault guns... (They are semi, but that is another story). Hell, one of my locals uses a Winchester, no serious. That gun is much older than him. Hell, one of them has a Henry (civil war rifle). He uses it for the Civil War recreation and turkey hunting. As he once put it, "takes much more skill to bag a turkey."
They tend to dislike the urban types that come during opening with all that fancy gear they are not safe around... their words.
Those are the people we need to build a bridge to... not the NRA types who are afraid the big Guv'ment wants to take precious away. They were the ones that also were in the minority I am guessing who do not want any regulation.
But the back country folks are afraid, they have been fed this, that even though they want some (to a lot) of regulation, that is the first step because well, democrats (look around here), hate hunters and hunting.
So we get into the lovely circle.