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Hunting Lifestyle
Hunting Lifestyle
Wisconsin's communities and economy have been driven by hunting, trapping, fishing, and farming for its entire existence. From birding to deer hunting to fur-trading, even back before European settlers arrived, a tradition of resilience and using natural resources in the form of game hunting goes back hundreds or thousands of years.
The recent epidemic of violence using firearms now overshadows the sporting and hunting lifestyle, from every aspect of purchasing and maintaining a firearm to the rise in price and reduced availability of ammunition.
Existing Hunter Safety courses are a great and inexpensive resource to gun owners, but they are only required to purchase a hunting license, there's no similar requirement to puchase a gun.
Background Checks
Background Checks
Driving a car requires training and passing a test. Buying a gun doesn't. At the very least, all new purchases on firearms should require the same FBI Database-backed background check that purchases at gun counters do. There should be no exception for transfers or gun shows.
In a 2002 Spectrum News/Siena Poll 86% of Wisconsin residents said that universal background checks should be required for all gun sales and transfers, including 83% of self-identified Republicans.
Concealed Carry
Concealed Carry
One other note on gun policy, since the 2011 passage of Act 35, allowing the concealed carry of weapons (CCW), including firearms, electric stun devices, and switchblades or other knives, authorized only with a standard hunter safety course, the number of deadly incidents, accidents, and violence has steadily risen.*
Greater general access and posession of deadly weapons does correspond to an increase in violence. When a gun in introduced to a tense situation, gun violence is often the result. When criminals are taken into custody, due to bail restrictions, they are often released on cash bond. If they are released with a firearm, additional violence is often the result.
https://time.com/6220317/milwaukee-homicides-cash-bail-debate/
* so far in 2023-2024, the crime rates seem to be reduced from its peak in 2022. This is a sign of hope that some of the driving force was uncertainty and stress due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and that community-police partnerships are starting to pay dividends.
https://www.fox6now.com/news/2024-milwaukee-crime-data-1st-quarter-year
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