Davidmil, your points are correct. But in our state of Wisc. they have to take a lot longer class than 8 hours in order to hunt. I had to take each of my boys to classes that went on ever week for over a month and then to a day of shooting. It was very hard to get off work to do this, and if it weren't for my love of hunting it would of NEVER happened. What did we learn? Absolutly nothing we did not already know.
Like I said earier, I personally know several young men who would of loved to go hunting, one begged me to take him to the class several years ago. I just couldn't do it cause of time and where he lived.... We are stopping hunters from even getting started with a class that aint doing much good. It either needs to be in schools where ALL children have access to it, or done away with all together. Hunting is safer than skieing, do we have mandatory skieing safety? Hunting is safer than dirt bikes or go-carts are there mandatory classes for that? Its stopping some good kids from hunting, and any is to many.