Re: Hiking in hunting season
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 5:37 pm
Tanngrisnir3 wrote:Unless you can cite some statistically significant rising trend in hunters negligently shooting people, it seems like a rather unnecessary legal option to increase penalties.
Consider the goal of reducing the number of occurrences that are happening versus the current frequency. I don't thing the penalties should be harsher to stop a rising trend, and I have no idea how you got that impression. They should be harsher in order to decrease the number of incidents from the current level.
simonov wrote:mrchad9 wrote:I simply said that I though the penalties for shooting someone should be greater than they currently are.
You said, "The issue is hunters endanger others." A gross simplification, and absolutely incorrect to boot.
When you choose to couch your arguments in sweeping generalizations like this, it tends to diminish the impact of your thesis, however much merit it might actually have.
You are in danger when a hunter shoots you, so hardly incorrect. That is all "The issue is hunters endanger others." means. If have difficulty understanding that or you want to disagree with it then that is your prerogative. This is old, neither of us are legislators, and I don't really care anymore.