Thread: Hunter bashing

There was a comment (I haven't fact checked it) that she's also a close relation of someone who helped write the new laws, as well as being on the board of gun-grabbers. Really what this is, is an attempt to further alienate hunters in order to attack firearms ownership. They have figured out they can start a "legitimate use" wedge, then keep driving it on whatever topic they think of. They nailed the competitive shooting community, now they're after the hunting community by saying the hunting community is causing climate change. You and I know that's stupid, but she just needs to win over the uneducated voters to kill our way of life.

Ultimately she's comfortable saying this publicly because this' part of a larger shift in society where the general public has no exposure to firearms or hunting, so are easily convinced of anything they're told. We as a community are terrible at getting our message out to non-hunters, but that's what we need to do if we want to survive. Chur Bay's school hunting program and club ( https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....ng-club-74684/ ) and NZDA's learn to hunt program are great examples of that. We however need to make sure that people local to these programs but outside the hunting and shooting community know they're happening, and expand our offerings so there's access at hand for those with no direct links into the community. We certainly can't ignore this and say "it'll never happen to me" or allow ourselves to be divided by saying "you don't need that to hunt" or "that's not hunting"... end of the day the anti-gun folks see all of us as evil, so division and narrow minded infighting only hurts you and benefits the gun-grabbers.