Just a little further and I could be where he deer hunts. I’m sure there are closer places, but I grew up in central MN and that is what I know. MANY people who live in the metro area hunt. We have roads that take us from the urban area to where the game is. Many have cabins in northern MN.
The discussion is about the firearm that seems to be used in the majority of these mass shootings, the AR15 style weapon. This weapon is designed to cause the max. number of casualties in the shortest time. Any hunter with some common sense needs to understand this, nobody is coming for your rifle.
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Normal people do not need rifles. That you think you do is the whole issue
Many law abiding people use rifles to hunt and do so responsibly. I am vegan & I don’t hunt. But I know many who do hunt & do eat venison, bear, turkey, duck etc.
Bonita, no one needs an AR-15 to hunt. That's the point these people are making. Do you not understand that?
I agree. They should be illegal. Read back in the thread. Most recently I was responding to someone who included ALL guns. My point to that was when you use that type of language you play into the line of bs the NRA & gun lobby has fed about the slippery slope of “they are coming for your guns”.
Every time there has been an opportunity to advance gun control the they shill that rhetoric. My only point was don’t be overboard in your language. We need gun control don’t undermine the efforts by helpful by NRA & gun lobby.
1) You're right. 2) There's someone a couple of replies up who generalized to all rifles. I'm 100% for better gun control in the US, but people (like that person, not you) who over generalize to that degree are going to lose a lot of people who hunt or who know responsible gun owners who hunt.
A rifle is just a long barreled gun with rifling (spiraling grooves) used to impart a spinning motion to fired bullets thereby increasing range and accuracy. I suppose hunters could use muskets if they wanted to hit trees rather than game, though that seems like a couple-century step backwards.