Hunters and gun safety

[GMDino]

Full disclaimer: I have never hunted. I have never fired a gun. I have always supported the 2nd amendment, though I feel there are issues with some weapons that can be bought and why they could possibly be needed. I still believe you have a right to own a gun and carry it with you. I'd like you to have proper training and all that also.

(My dad hunted up until I was about 4 years old and then gave it up. His rifle and the ones his brothers had were in a cabinet at my grandmother's house. No glass in the door and we knew better than to ever think about touching them let alone removing them from the cabinet.)

I support hunting. I think its good for maintaining population control of various species. I also love the taste of deer meat!

I understand there is a tremendous amount of safety involved in hunting.

However this has been making the rounds on Facebook for the past week or so:



And I just found it...odd.

Even accidentally you would think there would be at least one.

And so I did a 10 second google search and found out there was not one.

There were 22.

Now, statistically that's still almost nothing.

But why do people have to post that were were zero other than for hyperbole?

Its okay to admit there will be accidents and there will be deliberate shooting without saying we have to ban guns in my book.

Ignoring that those things happen makes the poster look as foolish as the person who thinks that banning guns will end gun violence.