08-29-2014, 11:53 PM
FU, your grandson is adorable. I have to agree with everything you've posted about gun safety and teaching children how to handle and use guns appropriately.
The media in the US only covers the sensational stories about shootings/deaths due to firearms. Many responsible gun owners take to the woods, prairies and mountains to hunt each year. In Wisconsin in 2010 there were 602,791 hunting licenses sold to resident and non-resident hunters. There were 32 incidents with one fatality that year.
The odds of being involved in an incident/death while hunting with firearms in Wisconsin are 1:18837.
According to NOAA, the odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime are 1:12,000.
There is a follow-up to the OP here
The media in the US only covers the sensational stories about shootings/deaths due to firearms. Many responsible gun owners take to the woods, prairies and mountains to hunt each year. In Wisconsin in 2010 there were 602,791 hunting licenses sold to resident and non-resident hunters. There were 32 incidents with one fatality that year.
The odds of being involved in an incident/death while hunting with firearms in Wisconsin are 1:18837.
According to NOAA, the odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime are 1:12,000.
There is a follow-up to the OP here