BTW its not called "Gun hunters safety course" its "hunters safety" course....nice try at division.

Once again, no one is advocating refusal of training. We support it. We don't think the state should have to mandate it or regulate it.I think private organizations do a fine job of training and to take it away from them and have the overburdened state take on any more burden for something that is less dangerous than many other outdoor activities seems wasteful and intrusive. There are so many more outdoor activites that are more inherently dangeous that do not mandate training.

As for your lawyer experince, I just won a $98,000.00 lawsuit, my claim was the counter claim I was sued first. Further, I have 2 more suits pending that am going to win so you are not the only person with some court experience.

80%+ of comunication is not whats said but how its said, that is lost on forums so being able to persuade juries with written arguments falls short. I won't waste more space here but I am positive I could easily win in court about how wastefull mandated bowhunter safety programs are when we private programsalready in place now. Court is not the issuse really anyway atm. Some hunters on here think that if the state mandates bowhunters safey, this somehow proves that "we police our own" which is the opposite. If we did "police our own" and "provide training for our own" then mandated state programs wouldn't be needed,
So if we do need the state to do it...then clearly we don't or cannotdo it.... more ammo for anti's I would think.

I support local education, mandated qualification tests to hunt tracts of land etc... like hagerman wildlife refuge where you have to pass a strict 3d shoot course in order to hunt there...or like I make my clients prove profiency at my hunting lodge before they hunt. These don't burden the state or create more bureaucracy thus making it harder for people to get into the sport of bow hunting and prove to the public that we do police our own. In Texas there is a TON of bow hunter ed, bowhunter safey, and intro into archery courses provided with no state mandate. There is no loophole in the system it works just fine. Further, people who are passionate about archery and bowhunting provide this training instead of a bored state employee who is mandated to be there to get his paycheck...

Lastly, and I am not kidding at all..my cousin was killed while bowhunting...he bled out in his fathers arms because he tripped while walking with a broadhead. I am not even making this up and I still don't think the state should mandate anything, maybe I am in the minority, but thats what I believe.