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In reply to the discussion: Many people in this country hunt to live [View all]Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)299. Roadkill, snares, traps, fishing poles. Guns aren't the only way to get cheap protein.
I know of a guy who uses a baseball bat to kill pigeons for dinner.
Real gun control would allow for single shot rifles and shotguns in rural areas for hunters. And perhaps other guns, kept in secure vaults at hunting clubs.
There was a thread with people listing those they had known who died of gun violence. Many stories of hunting accidents. America has a long history of hunting accidents and suicides and homicides by country boys using their hunting weapons. Let's not have any illusions about hunting with guns -- it is dangerous, then and now.
50 year old man shot and killed by juvenile hunting companion just the other day:
www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/318550
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Whether someone owns a gun is a more powerful predictor of a person’s political party--NATE SILVER
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#87
So you're picking Republican biased Gallup over Nate Silver after the last election? Hilarious
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#158
You clearly meant to reply to the person I was replying to, not to me. I support hunting.
peacebird
Jan 2013
#219
I was just reading on diets and how frybread came into tradition. And food deserts= no fresh produce
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#242
Some rural hunters don't understand - or care - "city folks" aren't into walking around in public
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#109
thank you for that astute and well composed post. and the lovely pictures. you are a credit and an
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2013
#110
Until rural people start caring about the majority in of the rest of the country
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#161
Most of my food is homegrown or local.... Exception for citrus, which my brother sends me from his
peacebird
Jan 2013
#174
If all you do is hunt animals, great. If you accumulate assault weapons or carry in public, that's
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#199
some city folk don't understand...or care..that we rural folk stock meat by hunting
backwoodsbob
Jan 2013
#182
When you go to town, do you carry. What are you hunting or expect to run into, backwoodsbob?
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#201
This city dweller knows the difference between a hunting rifle and an assault weapon
LonePirate
Jan 2013
#151
feel free to go educate them. you might want to use the correct term however:
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2013
#156
Most gun control measures being discussed would do nothing to prevent the use of guns for "living
Squinch
Jan 2013
#271
Purchasing food, meat or vegetables, means someone has killed animals for that purchase...
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#160
Yep. It's called economical, light-on-the-land living. Been doing it for years.
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#162
People should not need to deforest and soak the ground with fertilizers to eat
NoOneMan
Jan 2013
#68
In another thread someone said she was getting cut off food stamps because she couldn't get
dkf
Jan 2013
#36
Not really a few years ago I was so broke I only made enough to pay my bills I applied
Arcanetrance
Jan 2013
#121
It's not a lie. There are a few radicals in our midst who would ban all firearms.
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#57
Wow. You're still taking their post out of context. Even after attempts to correct you. n/t
Tempest
Jan 2013
#60
Your silly rationalization doesn't change the reality that the individual would ban ALL firearms
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#62
At least you admit you took the poster's comment out of context by your silence.
Tempest
Jan 2013
#72
I took nothing out of context. The poster I pointed out would ban all firearms with no exceptions.
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#76
Sorry, but the pages in DU (in & out of the Gungeon) over the last 2 wks indicate otherwise. nt
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#168
How about a post claiming that rural people don't have a clue about poverty or hunger
yewberry
Jan 2013
#152
Hmm, I just posted that since Dec of 2012, crossbows are now illegal in NY State.
KittyWampus
Jan 2013
#341
K/R. I'm afraid that many who support taxes, confiscatio etc., don't have a clue about rural folks.
NYC_SKP
Jan 2013
#5
I haven't seen hunting rifles mentioned, but then I don't know the acronyms.
Frustratedlady
Jan 2013
#75
Almost every hunting firearm commonly used is derived directly from a military design. n/t
PavePusher
Jan 2013
#246
Sure. However, your example is pointless in the "hunt to live" discussion...
Earth_First
Jan 2013
#56
do you want to force people to only eat food from stores? I prefer to eat wild game and local fish.
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2013
#29
I am fine with you being an herbivore. Are you OK with me being a carnivore?
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2013
#41
sorry. did not mean to offend. asking questions is all. I will unrec.
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2013
#89
Most of the families we knew in WV would home can the venison they caught.
FedUpWithIt All
Jan 2013
#101
Used freezers and fridges can be quite cheap, especially if you do your own repairs.
PavePusher
Jan 2013
#248
I will feel safer while out hunting for my food if no one in the woods has an AR-15.
Coyotl
Jan 2013
#47
I can't think of any place it's legal to hunt dear with a 30-round magazine.
PavePusher
Jan 2013
#249
The issue per the OP is "All this talk of taxing weapons and ammo, or taxing owners..."
slackmaster
Jan 2013
#71
Since the OP was about hunting, but now is drifting into gun-control politics...
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#211
Well thanks for links that indicate nothing other than "there exist some people who might be
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#141
Who cares! They don't vote for us for a bunch of issues and we can win elections without them
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#165
Who is more important city people or rurals? Both, but city people vote for us and rurals vote Puke
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#169
Part of the reason the south has so much power is because the rest of the nation subsidizes them
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#183
20 out of the top 25 taker states voted for Romney & 2 of the 5 that voted Obama have Puke governor
MightyMopar
Jan 2013
#234
Though I'm not sure the number is accurate, still, isn't .1% about 350,000 people?
hughee99
Jan 2013
#228
No the suggestion is that .1% of the population should not be claimed as "many".
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#281
Why does someone from those areas need to come to CT and shoot the kids in a CT School?
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#81
I use a shotgun and have never had a problem hitting what I aim at or killing with one shot.
appleannie1
Jan 2013
#107
Usually takes me one round. Plus scores more for practice, so I can use one round.
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#225
which is quite different than "had to hunt to put food on the table". nt.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#135
Deer meat has become a big component of food banks due to Hunters for the Hungry...
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#224
Hunting is big business for gun manufacturers. ACTUAL FACTS ACTUAL DATA.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#134
They are not at all equivalent to "a 105mm tank". And they are quite legal in many states.
PavePusher
Jan 2013
#312
I'm not aware of any state that allows hunting of deer, or any non-pest game...
PavePusher
Jan 2013
#335
Ammo, guns, fishing supplies and motorboat fuel are additionally taxed since the 30s...
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#220
No but some use detachable magazine fed semi automatics in a variety of calibers
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#214
"Need"? No, but they are well suited to the task and in common usage for it.
PavePusher
Jan 2013
#256
So you don't know. Got it. Legislation based on ignorance always serves us well doesn't it?
PavePusher
Jan 2013
#296
One need not hold an advanced degree in a subject in order to be informed on it.
PavePusher
Jan 2013
#311
The gun-controllers WILL HIJACK this thread, then blame you for it. SOP. nt
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#227
my BIL hunts with a bow. He pays for the (considerable) expense by teaching others how
librechik
Jan 2013
#200
Which is why, as anti-gun as I am, I am willing in my desired endstate to allow single shot rifles.
stevenleser
Jan 2013
#203
Please provide credible data quantifying the many people that depend on hunting for survival.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#260
No you have provided exactly zero evidence that quantifies the extent of subsistence hunting.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#270
Nothing. Which is why I have repeatedly asked the ops of assertions of "many" subsistence
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2013
#322
Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the U.S. (a virulently anti-hunting organization) was asked..
Eleanors38
Jan 2013
#233
dude, don't bring Bambi into this - it will really cause an uproar. Bambi, omg!!
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2013
#278
How about we ban the assault weapons and the high capacity magazines.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2013
#295
Roadkill, snares, traps, fishing poles. Guns aren't the only way to get cheap protein.
Dems to Win
Jan 2013
#299