Thread: Licensing and mental illness

Yes. I find it very sad. Kids are coming out of school having not been taught that in the real world there are winners and losers, and it is really really important to try to be a winner. NZ did not win the rugby world cup by simple "participation". I see many kids, including some close, who at 18 plus, have no idea what to do with their life, and are totally confused about what PC is and whether it is important as the authorities that have dominated them for so many years actually make out. In the meantime the authorities just create more and more restrictions and "rules". It is no wonder peoples attention span gets shattered. Short attention span plus distraction gets people hurt or killed.
Interestingly, I just made a comment to some other associates who are discussing firearms accidents. Compare the number of firearms accidents amongst deerhunters, where for most game is hard to access and hard to succeed in bagging; --with accidents involving pig hunters, where risks should be higher, but the activity is much more social, and the game more accessible and plentiful with a greater chance of success but few firearms fatalities! Pig hunting today probably allows for more mentoring of youngsters , with more positive successes, than deer hunting, where the difficulty for a young person to succeed and be mentored on a regular basis is much less likely. A possible solution may be for more deer populations to be deliberately managed in higher numbers in accessible recreational hunting forest parks than is presently the case. DoC and TB Free and their poisons should be kicked to hell and gone away from recreational hunting areas and forest parks, while at the same time, better access including 4wd bike trails, helipads, roads and camp sites should be constructed to foster hunting opportunities and success rates. I feel these moves would encourage more regular mentoring of young people and increase participation and integration with their older associates to the benefit of both; and hopefully a reduction of deer hunter shooting accidents.