School Shootings and Recreational Hunters?
Violence always leads to counter-violence according to the law of cause and effect.
Violence Works in Both Directions
Like love, violence always works in both directions. At the point where violence is unleashed, damage is caused just as much as at the point at which it is directed. Scientists have discovered this in studies of soldiers and serial killers.
Animal abuse should not be regarded as a minor character flaw in a recreational hunter, but rather stands as a symptom of a profound mental disorder. Research in psychology and criminology shows that people who commit acts of violence against animals do not stop there.
Gun fanatics indoctrinate children
The recreational hunting scene is a distinctly diffuse parallel world dominated by cult-like ideologies. Children who love animals are enticed with weapons, ammunition and killing. Through children's innocent love of animals, attempts are made to condition them into killing.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child advocates, in accordance with Art. 19, that minors be protected from the damaging effects of violence. Recreational hunters are neither trained educators nor role models when it comes to animal welfare.
Hunting culture is linked to school shootings. There are studies showing that 90% of violent criminals began as animal abusers or recreational hunters.
Also read: Cult: The Recreational Hunters and Beware the Cult Danger!
More on this in the dossier: Psychology of 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.
