Posted on 08/03/2018 9:12:57 AM PDT by Simon Green
Gun control activist Igor Volsky on Thursday said that the U.S. is starting to see a change in gun culture and the popularity of hunting is starting to wane among younger generations.
“Hunting is on its way out,” Volsky told Hill.TV co-hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on “Rising.”
Volsky, the executive director of activist group Guns Down, has some numbers to back up his assertion.
Participation in hunting dropped by about 2 million people, to 11.5 million hunters, from 2011 to 2016, according to a 2017 report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The report also found that hunting license sales dropped in 33 states in the last two decades.
The activist also says that gun culture in America is starting to change following February's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
“The culture is changing — you see younger people not using guns as much. ... After Parkland, 28 companies break ties with the [National Rifle Association],” Volsky said. “That’s a real sign that they see a market advantage to not be associated with the gun lobby.”
Several major companies, including Hertz and United Airlines, abandoned their partnerships with the gun rights organization after facing public pressure from gun control activists on social media. Dick's Sporting Goods also scaled back the types of guns it sold at its stores.
The Parkland shooting renewed nationwide debates on gun control, an issue many Democratic candidates are taking seriously in the 2018 midterm elections.
“I shoot squirrels and leave them lay.“
If that is true, then you are a despicable slob.
Not in Chicago it isn’t.
Good luck when something bad happens (cyberattack interrupting food deliveries?) and you have to go to your garden. Oh wait....
If they could mount an I-phone to a gun they would have something. That’s all that matters today.
Why do you shoot sqirrels for nothing? Keep that secret to yourself!
Are they causing a problem with your house? Please dispose of their remains in a respectful manner.
Both hunting and the 2nd amendment involve the use of guns. To most people who don't hunt or own guns, the 2nd amendment is an unimportant afterthought.
My grandfather taught me to hunt squirrels more than 50 years ago. His rule, my Dad’s rule, my rule, my boys’ rule: You kill it, you clean it, you eat it.
God gave man dominion over the animals of the land, the sea and the air. Dominion does not translate to “ slaughter at will for internment purposes”. It means “take care of and nurture”.
Hunted sporadically as a "yute", but didn't much enjoy it. I own guns only for self-defense purposes these days, but I am not going to denigrate anyone who chooses to hunt.
Hunted sporadically as a "yute", but didn't much enjoy it. I own guns only for self-defense purposes these days, but I am not going to denigrate anyone who chooses to hunt.
Hmmm...not sure why the double post. Keyboard??
Didn’t Dark Helmet threaten to give Princess Vespa...HER OLD NOSE BACK!!?
;^)
Igor Volsky... If a large number of people have less interest in you talking, does that mean we have less interest in the 1st Amendment?
Hunting is not the exclusive purpose of the 2nd Amendment. Gun ownership, which is increasing in the United States, does not mandate or imply hunting as its sole purpose.
WANT TO BET???
“Participation in hunting dropped by about 2 million people, to 11.5 million hunters,...”
That’s still 1,150 infantry divisions at 10,000 each. And that doesn’t even count the many more millions of non-hunter gun owners. Are you ready Igor?
Gents. ‘Leave them lay’ happens in Alturas, Ca. The squirrels are like rats and destroy the farmers alfalfa. They welcome us and we kill sometimes a hundred or so. Just look up squirrel shooting in Alturas on youtube. Lots of fun to be had.
This gets back to the hunters instinct.
I don’t hunt because I don’t know to clean it, so I won’t be eating it, so why kill it. But I love going to the range. I try to introduce as many people as I can to the sport to let them see it’s not what the liberals make it out to be.
The lib’s want to see hunting sports fall out of favor. Some of the gun laws a designed to do just that when you can’t pass a gun down without the states permission.
With respect, that’s not “hunting”. That’s “pest control”.
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