ORIGINAL: Badger_Girl93
ORIGINAL: brucelanthier
ORIGINAL: Badger_Girl93
ORIGINAL: Goodgrief
I was going to leave this, but, I asked my neighbors brother this evening who works for our DPW, and yes in fact they do have to have safety courses in all of their equipment ie; Lawnmowers, weed wackers, and the like. Hard hat, gloves, glasses, steel toed boots. It has nothing to do with rights, it's about safety. And, like I stated earlier, I "have" no proof yet, but maybe injury claims and law suits against the state, may have played a originating role in the decision to adopt the mandatory courses.
Those are public employees, not individuals mowing their back yard. Big difference. Employers have an obligation to ensure a safe work place. The state does not have an obligation to ensure that individuals safely trim their hedges.
Using your same logic......If you want to hunt in your backyard (or private land)fine, no mandatory classes. If you want to hunt on public land then the state has an obligation to ensure that you do it safely 
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Not exactly...hunting on public land is not an official duty of a govt. employee. Once again...big difference.
But on another note, yes the govt. does have an obligation to ensure that i hunt safetly and responsibly on public land. That's why they made me take a mandatory hunter's ed course. That's why I have to show my hunter's ed card before i can buy a license. And the mandatory hunter's ed class covers the govt.'s obligation....IMO,there is no obligation foradditionalbow only courses.
All these public domain arguments do not apply to the question at hand. IMO, the states obligation is satisfied by the courses that ARE ALREADY MANDATORY![8D]
Now, we're getting somewhere!
Obligation, and responsibility of the state. The state takes that responsibility when they "issue" a hunting license to a individual that can access "public land" with a weapon, that they have in fact took the proper steps to insure the public's safety as well as the individual. I know you don't like the Gov't, but like it or not, "they" are our biggest supporters (DNR). We are their tool for management. I'm sure the DNR fights more battles "for" hunters against the anti's in a day, then I will ever in my life. If Mandatory is a tool they need to fight the good fight, then I'm in! By the way, there are 3 hunters in our group that are "archery only" hunters. We only draw "archery only" tags, so you're right, a gun safety course really doesn't address our special needs. Hmm.