8-Year-Old Brings Father's Gun to Day Care, Shoots Classmate
8-Year-Olds May Be Allowed To Hunt In Wis.
Current Limit Is 12
POSTED: 3:09 pm EST January 23, 2006
MADISON, Wis. -- Legislators who fear young people are losing interest in Wisconsin's hunting tradition want to allow children as young as 8 to shoot deer.
Rep. Scott Gunderson's proposal would lower the hunting age from 12 to eight.The Republican from Waterford said it's important to get kids hunting at a younger age.
But the idea of a lower hunting age horrifies Joe Slattery, whose 14-year-old son was accidentally shot and killed by a 12-year-old while deer hunting in Marinette County last year. He said 8-year-olds don't have the ability to handle guns.
The state Assembly already approved Gunderson's bill. The measure still needs approval from the state Senate and governor to become law.
Now Conservatives in Canada exhort us that Gun Control Laws here should be like America. At the same time they want to raise the age of consent laws from 14 to 16. And they want to lower the age that a teenager can be tried as an adult for violent crime to 14. Go figure.
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