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.
She looked so much better after her nose job.
Never big on hunting myself. Though get me on a range....
I’d take her over Princess Leia, anyday.
What does that have to do with the 2nd amendment?
The Second Amendment isn’t about hunting. Don’t think of this as another way to subvert it.
I shoot squirrels and leave them lay. THERE IS a hunters instinct amongst us men. It’s up to us to bring it out of the boys even if their mamas want them to be girly men.
Also, since hunting has become a billion dollar or more business large hunting clubs have bought or leased out a lot of prime land.
There is no shortage in the number of shooters out there though. The gun ranges are always full on the weekends.
Whatever she’s smoking, she needs to just keep on smoking it.
It will make her feel better in her lib insanity.
Even with all the good publicity?
I doubt seriously that hunting is on its way out
A 22 year old that is anti-gun today may well not be by the time they are 45!
More importantly neither of those things have anything to do with the 2nd Amendment!
Hunting is getting more and more expensive.
To expensive to do as much as I used to.
Nothing whatsoever, but it fits their "You don't need an AR-15 to hunt ducks" narrative.
Cuz NO DADS.
I loved her in “The Sure Thing”, too.
Actually, a lot of old pastimes are on the way out.
This guy is correct, but for the wrong reason. He’s correct because he’s a stopped clock.
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