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Mr Khan 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."

But it is easier to take people down with you. One of my grandfather's brothers went out that way

Was he drunk while he did it? (I'd guess yes.)

However now we are talking about such an obscure and tiny situation it's ridiculious to even consider crafting legislation around it.