You have to be a teenager to drive a car, but it’s okay for little kids to hunt with guns? I’m glad I don’t live in Wisconsin, I don’t have a Dayglo vest. Thanks, Gov. Walker:
Wisconsin’s nine-day gun deer hunting season starts this weekend, and this year, for the first time, children of any age will be able to hunt with a firearm while accompanied by an adult. Last Saturday, Gov. Scott Walker quietly signed into law a bill that lifted age and firearm restrictions on adults hunting with small children.
In Wisconsin, hunters need to be at least 14 years old and pass a hunter’s safety class to hunt alone, but the state’s mentoring program allowed children 10 and up to hunt with an adult. The new law eliminates this age restriction, as well as lifts a ban on hunters carrying multiple firearms when they’re hunting with children.
Licences for the children now able to hunt under the new law went on sale Monday, making Wisconsin the 35th state to have no minimum hunting age.
The bill was introduced in the state legislature in July, but its signing comes just weeks after two mass shootings and amid a national conversation about gun control.
Walker and the rest of the Republicans are aware that their time in office is growing shorter with each passing day.
So they are rushing to pass as much legislation as they can.
Especially those on the right wing lunatic fringe like Trump and Walker.
Republicans are at war with themselves.
Establishment, Capitalist oligarchs want Trump to move toward their positions.
The Randy Weaver, Bannon/Breitbart, Pence/Miller Nazis want Trump to blow up the entire system.
Which they hope will spark violence.
Republican are the enemy.
There will be several cases in the coming years of wives shot cleanly through the back of the head by toddlers cleaning guns.
I was ten when I got my hunting license, and I had to pass the safety course to get it. My dad was careful about what he let me do with the guns, and I never felt less than safe around them. We were taught what guns are and what they do from a young age, and none of the three of us had any problem with them.
I grew up in a place where guns aren’t the same kind of menace they are where I live now, and when I moved to Oakland in 1984, I left all of my guns at my dad’s house in Eureka, because why would I want them here?
I don’t know what my parents did to keep us out of the guns before we were old enough to learn how to safely deal with them, mostly because I am the youngest and therefore the last one they did it to.
We just sort of looked at them as something you occasionally needed, and therefore had to know how to not hurt anyone with them, like a power tool or a vehicle.
My dad grew up poor in Oklahoma, and he and my uncle hunted to supplement their diet from an even younger age than he taught us to shoot, so I can sort of understand why he wanted us to know about them, even if I don’t agree with it any more.