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2/15/2013 4:05:47 AM
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Well, yes, but I don't think you can really make gun safety into a 16-week course. I would support it as an elective class, maybe something like Marksmanship or something.
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hunting IS necessary. in many parts of the US, we have removed all apex/natural predators to make room for humans. this has a bad ecological effect of allowing the large herbivores such as deer to overpopulate. they take the resources until there are none left and they start to die off. this is bad for the other species, obviously, as they have no resources. and the deer can carry communicable diseases(ex: Lyme disease) and parasites(ex: ticks, worms). this means they continually encroach on human land, and damage property and kill and injure humans. ever see what a head on collision with a good sized buck does to a car with passengers? the aftereffects aren't pretty and the people almost always die on impact or critical condition from it going through the windshield. it then falls on humans to pick up the slack left from a lack of apex predators. which is why states allow annual hunting licenses to cull populations.
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Talk about a bump, ya weirdo. You replied to a four month old comment But since you have - in which case (in reference to overpopulation), that falls to farmers/landowners, and you'll strugle to find a rational person who would disagree that farmers are generally a collection of people who really could use a firearm in their day to day lives. This, in respect to this topic, is irrelevant. The needs of farmers/landowners are not representative of the needs of society as a whole. Yes, culling certain animals at certain times is a requirement in order to regulate agriculture and disease (see: UK badger cull currently), but that you think that this is sufficient grounds for all youths to be taught marksmanship/Weapons Handling courses at school? Laughable. Leave that to rural dwellers and the CDC/whatever wildlife authority would be concerned. also [quote]ever see what a head on collision with a good sized buck does to a car with passengers? the aftereffects aren't pretty and the people almost always die on impact or critical condition from it going through the windshield.[/quote] almost always die? Nice hyperbole, don't be silly. A family member of mine has hit a deer that ran onto the motorway (so I guess a 70+ MPH collision, and another has hit a horse (albeit at 30) - the worst that happened was that one got a broken arm.
