"Should kids be allowed to hunt?"
In PA? Ask that down here in MS and you will be laughed out of the room.
Take your boy huntin' instead of huntin' for your boy..........
No school today, first day of Buck season.
PETA and Earth First! don't fund sh*t other than their own sorry agendas.
When very young, with an adult....after that...read Kill'em n Grill'em...then own their own!
Every American boy should take a gun safety course, including shooting a pistol, rifle and shotgun, by age 14.
Every American girl should take a wild game dressing course, including dressing a fish, rabbit and pat, by age 14.
Some kids are just too fidgety to hunt. It isn't just how well they can shoot or knowing the safety rules.
(1) How to handle a firearm safely and properly.
(2) Appropriate hunting ethics. ("Character" has do to with what you do when no one is looking.)
(3) Where that McDonalds' hamburger comes from.
(4) What "death" really means, as opposed to the video games version of "death".
(5) Respect for the environment and the out-of-doors.
(6) Knowledge of hunting and animals including: reading sign, understanding wind direction, picking a stand location, placing decoys, calling, and picking your shot.
I'm sure there is more to say on this topic, but that's a good start.
Definitely! My friend teaches a hunter safety class for kids so they can get their license to hunt. He teaches them everything they need to know so they will be cautious, intelligent hunters. THAT is exactly how it should be. I go snake hunting and do a little plinking with his son. He just turned 13 and we've been doing it since he was 9, but he has been going with his dad for a few years before that.
Allowed? Encouraged!
My 11 year old took a hunter training safety class when he was 10. He scored higher on the written portion of the test than most of the adults in the class. He can outshoot me with his BB gun. Together we go down to a gunshop in Santa Rosa and look at rifles, pistols, and shotguns and spend time discussing the merits of .38's vs 9mm's; lever action vs pump action shotguns, etc. etc.
We're planning a hunting trip together. I love the look on the face of my Buddhist convert mother in law when we talk about hunting elk and wild boar....
In northern FL it is routine for business AND public offices to close for hunting season.
This is nothing but an effort to prevent children for being taught responsibility.
(sexual hedonism is ok, responsibility is bad)
A 10 year old boy shot and killed his 13 year old friend yesterday when they were deer hunting with their fathers here in NW Florida. It is a terrible tragedy for all involved. The victim was hit when he ran ahead of the group tracking a wounded buck.
It better to hunt legal game with your kids in a field, then to have them hunt illegal fun on their own on our city streets. I trust the parents judgment about their kids level of maturity far more then the regimented dictates of any bureaucrat. Your birth certificate says nothing about your ability to behave responsibly
Up here in the frozen north, my seven-year-old son has been begging me for months to get him a decent pellet gun so he can go out and get some ptarmigan or some spruce grouse. The pellet gun will arrive on his eighth birthday. Of course, he'll get lots of training about how to handle it with respect. He's also smart enough to realize that you don't give a boy a .22 until the fifth grade.
I agree with the poster from Mississippi. For an Alaskan, the question in the article just means you have no clue.
About the article: another example of the media being far, far out of touch with many of the readers they pretend to serve.
I'd definitely say no more cars, because some people can't drive worth ratpoop.
Same flawed logic.
Same socialist removal of reward for accomplishment.
I was deer hunting at 9, harvested my first deer at 11. Demonstration of good firearm handling habits and responsibility were prerequisites, hunting (and shooting) were priveleges which could be revoked for the most minor infraction, and this was understood.
Yeppers, they should!!!
Should communists be alllowed to publish their propaganda??