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31 deaths: hunters, drivers, and wives

2010 are at least 31 people in Germany become killed by hunting weapons, about 800 others were injured, some seriously. A reduction of the hunted species would not only save lives, it is also necessary ecological. There

A central registration of all fatal hunting accidents and crimes by fighters not in Germany. Even the German Hunting Association (DJV) is silent on this subject - too much seems to be the fear of possible limitations of the weapons law.

counts alone, 31 deaths in 2010, based on press articles generated statistics of the "abolition of hunting." Mostly elderly victims of the already "perpetrators" are hunting colleagues who are confused with the Warthog, the 74-year-old, who shoots himself by accident itself, the driver in the corn field, but also the wife, the ex-girlfriend or son. There are also some 800 hunting accidents are reported annually to the professional associations - dark figure on the sidelines.

comes to accidents, it is very often neglected by society because hunting safety was or was not backed up the supposedly experienced hunter his gun against the rules. Often, it is the impatience, the competitive situation during a press hunt or just a "shot-heatedness. The goal is not - as required craft - first "spoken to" (this refers to the unique identification of the potential victim), but take the expectation to have the right people the finger from the gut made crooked - often with fatal consequences for the game. So-called lobe (limbs), rumen (stomach) or Äserschüsse (jaw) are not uncommon and happen very often in driven hunts or hunts at dusk or at night.

death and wife, Hans Baldung Grien

"In Germany, hunted too much ... and no ecological sense," says Lovis Kauertz, the animal welfare blog hunting but fair . com operates. You can prune the list of hunted animals without negative consequences for the balance of nature from one day to about 100 to 10. For agricultural damage, beyond a certain level, one could establish a trust fund fed by farming and hunting. Connected to a regular detection of weapons qualification, the there is currently limited to hunters only in a few states, this would make it dramatically reduce the number of people killed or injured by hunting people.