USA: Dog kills recreational hunter
In Kansas, a dog stepped on a rifle and shot its 30-year-old owner during a hunting trip. A tragic accident.
Dog stepped on rifle
A recreational hunter was killed over the weekend during a hunting trip in Kansas when a dog stepped on a rifle and fired it, according to the Sumner County Sheriff's Office.
Officers were dispatched on Saturday, 21 January 2023. Joseph Austin Smith, 30, of Wichita had been shot in the back while sitting in the passenger seat. Smith died as a result of the gunshot wound.
Not an isolated incident
In recent years there have been several other notable incidents involving dogs and firearms. Over Thanksgiving weekend 2022, a 32-year-old Turkish recreational hunter was shot when a dog discharged a loaded shotgun.
Since the beginning of the new year, there have been 101 unintentional shootings in the United States. In 2022, more than 1’600 unintentional shootings were reported. More on the topic Crime and hunting.
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More on the subject of recreational hunting: In the dossier The Role and Criticism of Recreational Hunters we shed light on the training, power and self-image of recreational hunters. What the research says about this is shown by Hunting fact-checked: the state of research.
The position of IG Wild beim Wild: IG Wild beim Wild rejects recreational hunting. Our model is the canton of Geneva, which has managed without recreational hunting since 1974: without hunting seasons, without hunting dogs, without driven hunts, without high seats, without the animal cruelty and crime that go hand in hand with hunting season elsewhere. What has worked there for over fifty years disproves every position paper by JagdSchweiz. An association that bases its policy on claims it refutes in its own documents is not a professional organisation, but a factory for misinformation.
