The recreation use from them is not worth the inevitable shootings. As the safety of the many come before the pleasure of the few. Not to mention the lead exposure on the environment from the bullet casings left on the ground and all the noise that’s caused from all the firing disrupting the wildlife.
If you want to play with guns like toys go take a vacation down south.
The only people who should have access to guns are the military, special forces and hunters in remote areas without any food alternatives.
No. Just…no.
It’s not that I disagree with you per se. I personally would never use one and I personally feel that there needs to be strict registration requirements for owning one. But banning all guns is like using a sledge hammer on a thumb tack; it’s a far more delicate issue than you want it to be.
For starters, who determines what constitutes a “remote area”? There are plenty of hunters who may not need to hunt to survive, still enjoy hunting and eating wild game when it’s in season. Who gets to decide that they aren’t allowed to?
Secondly, what do you then propose we do about wildlife overpopulation? Hunters play a critical role in keeping wildlife under control. Every year there are rules about how many of each sex and how many of each breed you are allowed to hunt because it:
Keeps the populations under control. And,
Functions as a health measure for those very animals, since overpopulation can lead to not only starvation as much of their land has already been taken over by us humans, but also a number of wildlife diseases that can run unchecked in an overcrowded population (some of which CAN and HAVE crossed over to humans…ie. Rabies, bird flu, ebola, and dozens more.)
So you say “people don’t need guns”? Hunting and gun ownership make up one half of a very important system in rural areas. NOT just remote areas with no “access to alternative food sources”.
You’re entire premise reads like spoiled city folk who like to open their high-and-mighty mouths before knowing a damn thing about what they want to say.
You don’t need to kill sentient beings in order to do population control and it’s hilarious you brought up Ebola since that was caused from humans eating hunted monkey meat.