This past week and all the way up untill this coming Friday is gun season for deer. Every year you hear stories of hunters getting killed or injured because of lack of responsibility or safety. With this upcoming Christmas there are sure to be a number of kids who will be asking for a gun from Santa. It is our duty as fellow hunters to insure and instill good safety habits in the next generation, we have to teach them how to use that gun as if it were always loaded (even though it may not be). Gun safety can affect anyone if not taken seriously, I lost a friend my freshamn year of college at Emporia State. He was shot and killed by some people passing by his duck blind, they fired a couple of shots at his decoys with a rifle. He was hit in the chest and died instantly. This is just one of the many sad examples that can take place if people are ignorant with the use of there guns. We must make it our responsibility to provide kids and new gun owners of these saftey tips. If you have any good advice you would like to share or stories explaining the need for gun safety please share.
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Even as a non hunter it is always sad to hear about young kids being killed or seriously injured. So it is very important that these youg kids get educated!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this. I think this is a very important topic that does not get discussed enough. It is very important that everyone, including kids, should get the proper gun safety education.
ReplyDeletemaybe at every child at young age should go through hunters safety and education courses.. at least in some parts of the country.
ReplyDeleteI think this is very serious and there does need to be alot more safety with guns, sorry to hear about your friend. Hunting is something i have never done but i have also heard alot of stories about people getting killed.
ReplyDeleteThat is very unfortunate. It saddens me to hear about it. It certainly shows how important it is to make sure your are well educated before using guns or other weapons.
ReplyDeletei love shooting guns and have been raised around them since i was little. but before my father allowed me to go off by myself with a gun i had to take a hunter safety course which thought me all of the safety precautions.
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