Cal+-+Hunting

Should hunting be legal?

A 16 month year old girl was killed in a hunting accident while standing inside her mobile home in Swan Lake in, New York. The hunter was arrested and charged with manslaughter, although it was not clear whether he violated hunting regulations. The hunter was trying to shoot a deer from 400, feet away from the mobile home and he missed the deer and hit the 16 month year old girl in the neck shoulder and head.

200 million animals were hunted last year just in the USA. a hunting group in the US think hunting should stay legal here is what they have to say, "it should not be illegal. Would you plan to make fishing illegal, too? You probably don’t understand this, but hunters do more to conserve wildlife than any other group. Can you guess why? Most real hunters eat what they kill. Yes they often mount trophies. That does not mean they did not process venison from that same carcass."

A 2 year old boy was shot in the head due to a hunting accident in the USA. The hunter got fined $50,000 and was sentenced to 2 years minimum in New York county prison. The man pleaded not guilty and said he was trying to shoot an elk which was 200 yards away from the little 2 year old boy.

9021 animals are killed on average a day.

There were 23,000,000 wild pigs in 2000.

Now there are 24,678,956 wild pigs in 2011.



In Asia there are only 40,000 elephants in 2011. In Africa there are only 50,000 elephants in 2011. Half of the elephant’s population has been lost due to ivory which comes from the tusks of an elephant.

Lots of animals have been extinct due to hunting such as the dodo bird.