Democratic congresswoman shot in Arizona.

[Mr Khan]

mrstickball said:

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

This is quite odd. Western Pennsylvania is heavily hunting country, but i don't know anyone that seriously eats venison (or even likes it). If they eat the deer, it's for deer jerky, which is hardly any sort of serious sustenance.

 

Though this argument's gone severely off-topic. I'm no fan of guns in the home, just because of the tendency to lead to tragedy (mostly either suicidal or accidental), and i'm a stringent foe of guns that have no viable purpose other than aggressively killing lots of people (assault weapons and the like), but hunting i feel is ultimately a benign cultural thing, and should be left alone, though ideally i'd have some technique for isolating hunting rifles outside the home

Accidental I can see, though accidental gun deaths are very low.

But suicidal?  It's not like people say "Oh I want to kill myself, but darn it... I don't have a gun."

I would also mention that if those are his views (left of center), I would imagine he may not be in the type of kill-it-and-eat-it crowd, and is unlikely to know people that are serious about both hunting for food. I live close to him (central Ohio), and can say that we hunt likely as much as western PA, and everyone does it for food.

My politics has never determined my circle of friends, and i knew quite a few people who hunted routinely (my other grandfather being one of them, and a few of my close friends from high school), and if they actually reclaimed the carcass for anything aside from trophying, it was for jerky

Not to be argumentative at all. You're probably just as correct in this as i am, but my exposure to it has been far more for sport (and i'm talking about some medium-low income families, too)