[mallardx]

Trying to teach leftists the truth is like trying to fit a full-size Hummer into an 8x10 Tuff-Shed.

[Racer1]

I went here in PA yesterday and not once did my gun try to excape to do harm to anyone.

[ExpatGator]

Zackly!

[absolootezer0]

there’s also the difference that many of us that go out hunting go out with multiple thousands of dollars worth of gear for a weekend of hunting. we’ve learned for our fathers, been instilled with a level of responsibility, saved up, researched, shopped, purchased, scouted, practiced, took the time off work, time off from families that we’ll miss and will be happy to go home to, and left, bearing the responsibility of our actions, knowing the effect a mishap will have on not just up but all involved and their families.
gangbangers will steal, borrow or buy the cheapest gun available- probably worth less than my cheapest .22 rifle- and do their thing with no regard to long lasting effects or consequences- these never having been instilled in them by their absent parents- and they have nothing to lose.

[tdaley]

I agree that the leftists are hardheaded. Additionally, the right side tends to be equally hardheaded. This article seems somewhat slanted to me in that no one on the left side has blamed deer hunters for violence. The article does say that they blame easy access to guns, but the reality is that the deer hunters are clearly not the issue. Therefore, using them as an example, is somewhat of an irrelevant point. The nation we live in is doing it’s best to control who and who does not get a gun. I don’t think any additional measures need to be taken. The background checks that are in place today are designed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. It is unfair for the government to assume that everyone who buys a gun is going to use it criminally. Hence, we are doing the best we can as a nation to protect our people without impeding on personal rights laid out by the constitution. I just think the point this article is trying to make uses the wrong angle to make it.

[Last Dakotan]

Like everything in Wisconsin there is a racial angle that is ignored. The hunters are almost 100% white (with a few Hmong tossed in).

[Tanniker Smith]

naturally, the only story on the news on the radio this morning was about a girl who woke up yesterday and when she got out of the shower, her room was fun of feathers. A stray bullet reportedly when through her pillow while she was in the shower.

[Red6]

Someone gets it

[WOBBLY BOB]

Can I git me a huntin' license here?

[ElkGroveDan]

About 650,000 armed men have been roaming around Wisconsin the last few days.... and, as of Monday, only one had died in an accident.

This would have been a perfect place to insert the number of people killed roaming around in motor vehicles the past few days.

[dashing doofus]

What a coincidence: firearms season is just wrapping up in my state too, and there wasn’t a single accident. Must be sheer luck.

[girlangler]

GOOD article.

[trisham]

Good article.

[Sybeck1]

Just bought my 11 year old stepson his first .410 this past weekend for Christmas.

[BraveMan]

"The shooting gallery in Milwaukee’s central city and near south side has nothing to do with access to guns and everything to do with a breakdown of culture. "

Am I supposed to interpret this sentence as if it were some newly discovered, heretofore unheard of wisdom unearthed within the last 48 hours? Does this article break any new ground for anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

No matter how much of an "anti-gun" stance any citizen, activist or politician takes, the gangsters inhabiting the central city and near south side are still obtaining weapons. Tougher laws and tighter gun control have done nothing to stem the tide of gun violence in this area.

The laws and legal requirements inhibiting gun ownership can continue to increase exponentially; nothing will change. The gangsters inhabiting the central city and near south side are still going to obtain weapons.

Unless and until our society addresses the cause of the problem instead of the result, the only change that will occur will be an escalation of the violence over an ever larger area. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

[ridesthemiles]

Well said- hope they all are successful in getting their deer and that it passes the test for CWD. Venison tastes sooooo good.