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DANGERS TO THE HUNTER
1. Hunters trip on their guns slipping on ice or mud or wet leaves, going over fences, shooting themselves or others. They sometimes discharge a rifle in twisting an ankle in a gopher hole or over roots. They can fall into unguarded ravines.
2. There are many instances of bow and arrow hunters shooting others accidentally or impaling themselves on their own arrows.
3.. Guns can misfire. Hunters sometimes look down the barrel of a rifle wondering why it didn't fire, only to have the gun discharge.
4. The use of animal urines to attract animals to their deaths can boomerang.
5. Injured animals (stags, boar, bears etc) who are fighting for their lives can turn around and attack. There are many videos on the internet of injured or enraged animals attacking hunters.
6. Hunters often have heart attacks in the woods as they try to pull or carry or lift very heavy dead animals.
7 Hunters are frequently injured in tree stands. Injuries include falling asleep and then falling out of the stands.
8 Hunters lost in the woods suffer from heat or freezing, hunger and thirst. Hypothermia from sitting in duck blinds can happen quickly.
9. Ticks on deer and other animals or in the grass can burrow into hunters. Lyme disease is caused by bacteria on the ticks. Snakes and mosquitoes bite
10 Foxhunters mounted on horses are often thrown to their deaths or injured.
11 Hunters are not immune from the impotence which is related to animal flesh consumption. Michael Klaper MD has lectured around the country on vegan diet as a cure for impotence.
12. Eating flesh from hunted animals shortens life expectancy by causing heart attacks, strokes, aneurisms, embolisms, many kinds of cancers, kiAndney disease, thousands of varietues of food poisoning.
13. Animals have a number of untreated diseases, some of which are transmitted to those who eat the venison etc. Mad Deer, Mad Elk, and a number of other spongiform encephalopathy diseases make eating the cadavers of animals hunters kill even more dangerous. Figures on cervine spongiform encephalopathy have been censored by state and federal agencies
intent on protecting hunting industries, tourism, restaurants, gun merchants, outdoor equipment sales etc.
14. Field dressing is a euphemistic term for skinning and gutting the killed animal. Hunters and fishermen and women often get knife injuries in the process.
15. Small planes with hunting party passengers in remote regions of the West and Canada crash. Boats capsize (the image is of a potential accident).
16. There is hearing loss from guns discharging.
17. Hunters sometimes fall into other hunters' covered pits, get caught in snare traps, or step onto a bear trap.
18. Killing endangered species in other countries can result in fines or imprisonment. The Smithsonian was involved in a scandal when it accepted the stuffed carcass of an endangered species animal.
19. Hunters are sometimes injured by a rifle kickback, a weapon's misfiring, the razor sharp edge of an arrow.

20. They have fallen from tree stands

21. In building tree stands they have been seriously injured by chain saws.

DANGERS TO HIKERS, CAMPERS, RESIDENTS NEAR WOODS, CHILDREN 
20. Hunters often mistake hikers, campers in the woods for animals they are stalking. Countless adult and child residents of nearby
communities have been killed when hunters discharged weapons in woods close to the homes.
21. Countless children have died, finding their hunter parent's gun stash and using the weapons to play, for instance, cops and robbers.

DANGERS TO THE ANIMALS
22. Animals running in terror from hunters leave their bodies in fright and agony. Besides the painful death to trillions of animals are the countless animals who have died slowly from hunter injuries or the animals who are maimed but continue to live in pain with arrows protruding or infected gunshot wounds. Cleveland Amory reported seeing a deer with 12 arrows in her, still walking around. Billions of bear cubs, doe, etc. have been orphaned by hunters. President Theodoroe Roosevelt is remembered more for the 1 orphaned cub he adopted than the hundreds of bears he killed.
23. Fish die of suffocation, smashing or being knifed. Their eyes, gills, throats are ripped out by multipronged hooks.
24. Dogs are injured by wild boars, in fox hunts. by ticks. Beagles are kept confined in small cages by many hunters.
25. Horses are injured by broken necks and legs in fox hunts.
26. Falcons are injured in a variety of ways by hunters who use them to catch birds and small animals.
27. Pets are sometimes killed by hunters who are poor shots, who have vision problems, obstructed views, lack of awareness of a residential community.

FISHING

28.. Radiation cancers from Fukushima and illegal nuclear waste dumping around the world by other nuclear facilities, stomach cancer, lethal food poisonings including anaphylacic shock from shellfish, choking, mercury and other heavy metals destroying memory and hastening Alzheimer's, Mad Fish disease from prions expelled into the water etc are some hazards of fish eating.
29 Fishermen often catch fishhooks in face, fingers etc.
30 They can be spiked in femoral, hand or other arteries by catfishes, bitten by sharks.
31.They can be drowned in storms, knocked out of boats by the ramming of sharks, whales
32 Deep sea fishing is listed by many organizations as one of the 5 most dangerous occupations in the world. Drowning,
being caught in the nets are other hazards.

MURDER
33. Murders have been disguised as hunting accidents
34. Hunters can encounter farmers who don't want them shooting in the woods. Thomas Dillon killed five hunters in Central Ohio
35. A gathering of inebriated hunters can spell tragedy from shooting as alcohol opens the floodgates of anger.
36. The act of killing mammals and birds reduces the barrier between nonhuman and human beings. Criminal profilers and others have reported data which shows that those who have abused animals are more likely to become serial killers of human beings.

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DANGERS TO HIKERS, CAMPERS, RESIDENTS NEAR WOODS, CHILDREN 
37. Hunters often mistake hikers, campers in the woods for animals they are stalking. Countless adult and child residents of nearby
communities have been killed when hunters discharged weapons in woods close to the homes.
38. Countless children have died, finding their hunter parent's gun stash and using the weapons to play, for instance, cops and robbers.

There are some who hunt to feed their families or themselves. Perhaps they
more than others realize that those who buy meat in a grocery store are delegating the slaughter to someone else, often the noncitizens who are forced to take the very worst most dangerous jobs.The USDA, the biggest promoter of animal slaughter in the US, reported that in 2018 9.59 billion land mammals, 9.16 billion chickens and 236,860,000 turkeys were murdered for food.Around the world trillions of mammals, birds, and fishes are annually slain,

in the process causing myriad kinds of human diseases, climate change through deforestation, methane emissions, energy waste. 7.2 billion people are currently bulldozing more acreage every year for monoculture agriculture.

Millennials have caused the percentage of hunters in population to drop below 5%. The cult of masculinity, that one must kill animals in order to prove manliness, has fewer adherents every year.
This writer has never been involved in a debate about the 2nd amendment.

Stag attacks hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD5zjUbWpXY
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wild boar attacks hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A46Ndk-ru0U

hunter in Alaska attacked by bear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbL9W8xqs0
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5 bears in Alaska attack 65 year old hunter
http://www.inquisitr.com/1589491/bear-attack-five-bears-maul-65-year-old-hunter-in-alaska

Lion attacks safari hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEIGqD80N6U
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Doe injured by hunter's arrow attacks him
http://www.fdlreporter.com/story/news/local/2015/01/03/doe-attacks-man-shot-arrow/21232447

Louisiana man injured by deer he harmed
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/31/wounded-deer-injures-hunter/5076957/

A New Hampshire man transporting a bear he'd murdered was injured in his vehicle rollover
http://www.wmur.com/news/hunter-transporting-bear-injured-in-atv-rollover/35157188

Milton California a group of deer hunters have confrontation with man who doesn't want them hunting the man is shot
http://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2015/07/19/one-injured-milton-hunting-confrontation/30387885/

Injured hunter chooses death over paralysis
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/06/injured-hunter-chooses-death-over-paralysis/3461259/

Steve Irwin crocodile hunter who speared countless animals dies
being speared by manta ray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy25CutZTnY
/> Thomas Dillon killed 5 hunters
http://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dillonthomas.htm
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tree stand injuries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jrXRYzmltI
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hunters in Swiss and US emergency rooms
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4365337/
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Outdoor Life speaks of Mad Deer, Mad Elk
http://www.outdoorlife.com/articles/hunting/2007/09/mad-deer-disease-can-venison-kill-you
http://pcrm.org
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pirate4x4.com

Cleveland Amory reported an animal with 12 arrows in him was found walking around in the woods. Sometimes hunter-injured animals take months to die.
Only 4% of US citizens hunt.

Ohio hunter falls 22ft while hanging tree stand - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDoD0WHFgDE
/> Mar 31, 2012 - Ohio hunter falls 22ft while hanging tree stand. libertymediagroupllc... Reluctantly I pushed off the tree and fell 10 to 12 feet. With a bum knee...

Kid Falls 20 Feet Out Of Tree Stand - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcnnIDtu3Nc

http://www.shrewbows.com/rons_linkpics/Buck-in-canoe.jpg

http://pcrm.org

http://notmilk.com