I wholeheartedly agree with you. As a retired game warden (31 yrs.), we targeted felons hunting with firearms for several reasons. Depending on felony, they could not possess a firearm in the first place; it could lead to further evidence of other crimes by these folks.
I don't know why the public is brain-dead on this issue. They seem to equate high-powered firearms as somehow harmless when possessed by a felon who is hunting, illogically believing that such arms can only kill four-legged critters, not the two-legged variety, you figure it out, I give up.
On other hunting related threads I always encouraged looking beyond the hunting "accident", to look deeper. Sometimes agencies are too quick to write off a hunting related death as an accident when truth be known, it could easily be a murder. Verify, verify, verify, no coincidences in crime, all leads followed to their very dead end. Not unusual for high dollar deals to be made (or lost) on hunting trips, enemies made, debts paid...
I have never gone hunting with anyone that owed me money...LOL!
Here I thought I just had a demented mind. Whenever I hear of a hunting "accident", I just about always wonder if it was murder.
Me,too.
I don't believe in accidents or coincidence;at the lest hunting deaths are a result of the shooters carelessness.I believe too many shoot at sounds of brush shaking.
I am afraid that you and your fellow law enforcement officers have strayed from serving and protecting. Your only real job these days is fund raising, tying to catch people doing something wrong or even setting them up so it is easier for them to do something wrong. That way, you get your h@rd on and raise money through their fines and fees.
Remember, cops used to drive and be seen in HWY traffic to prevent speeding and other unsafe behavior, but now they have unmarked cars and hide in strategic place to catch people. Game wardens used to walk among fisherman and set up handy roadside checkstations to have a presence, but now they put taxidermied trophy animals right off of roads trying to get average joes, who have never even seen such a wonderful animal, to shoot at them and then when they do break the law, the G game wardens give each other high fives and express pure glee for tricking and catching their fellow man. Basically what I am saying is, who the heck is brain dead my friend?
All felonies are not equal. They do not imply the person is a violent criminal, or that he would use the gun in a criminal way. Your argument is the same as the gun grabbers toot about nonfelons.
How many hunters do you know who have had an accidental discharge after making a kill...say by forgetting to return the gun to safe? I've already confessed to one other mishap of mine...may as well confess to another. There is a hole in a certain part of my truck's anatomy due to a failure with the safety.
Last day of the season, last ten minutes, I'm sitting under a pine thinking, skunked again, when I see movement, scope up, antler, drop down, safety off, fire. Nice 8-pointer. I was hunting alone but I went to use the truck phone. I value my gun...okay I'm minimizing it...I screwed up.
I've told my wife so if anything happens she should be able to collect on my NRA life member insurance. Or do they make exceptions for stupidity?