Actually, I thought I did post some facts. Weren't they the ones you wanted?

First off, I do wear blaze orange during rifle deer season. I object to the fact that I have to wear it because I believe hunters should be responsible for their actions. Aren't you supposed to identify your target and determine that the shot is a safe one to take BEFORE you take the safety off and put your finger on the trigger? I do. What I object to is that we treat such incidents where a hunter is killed in mistake for game as accidents. They aren't accidents. They are an abdication of one's responsibility to hunt safely. If I kill someone on the highway with my car while driving recklessly, I can be convicted of manslaughter. Manslaughter is a felony, and with such a conviction one loses his right to own any kind of gun. Shouldn't the penalty be the same for hunting recklessly? If it were, I would wager that we wouldn't have as many hunting incidents where someone shoots another in mistake for game. Would you be a bit more careful if the penalty for shooting someone would guarantee you could never hunt again or own any kind of gun? Would you be more careful if shooting at someone and missing got you a conviction for reckless endangerment with the same possible result that you might not be allowed to hunt or own guns for the rest of your life?

I refuse to wear blaze orange during spring gobbler season. Turkeys can see blaze orange as well as I can, and the old gobblers and hens soon learn to make the connection between danger to them and blaze orange. If we mandate blaze orange in spring gobbler season, we might as well cancel the season. At least very few hunters wouldl kill mature gobblers anymore.

Finally, I get tired of the "Oh, if we can just save one life, it will all be worth it," mentality. We could save lots of lives if we would not drive cars. Highway fatalities number somewhere between forty and fifty thousand each year. Hunting accidents a whole lot less. Coming to a state near you. Horsepower limits on cars in the name of safety. Say fifty horsepower? The Brady bunch thinks we could save lots of lives if we could just confiscate all guns from us irresponsible citizens. Just think. If nobody owned guns, we wouldn't need a blaze orange law, would we?

I don't care what your politics are. It isn't about freedom to choose whether or not to wear blaze orange. It is about carelessness. Instead of putting the onus on those of us who hunt safely to defend ourselves against careless hunters, we should put the blame squarely where it belongs, on the shoulders of the careless hunter who doesn't practice gun safety.