There were 35 killed and 74 injured – and that’s people, not the animals and birds, mainly other hunters but also innocent passers by, people going about their lawful business. One friend of mine was told his life was in danger if he went on to his own land between 1st October and 1st February without wearing a fluorescent jacket.
Italian hunters are not allowed to shoot within 150 metres of a house or 50 metres of a road, but they can walk all over your land, right by your front door carrying loaded weapons. And given the statistics above they are not too accurate when they open fire.
The Tourism minister, Michela Vittoria Brambilla (that’s her pictured, not a hunter) is one of the few ministers with some brains and some backbone. She is going to take on the hunting lobby, proposing to parliament that the safety distances be increased and preventing trespass on to private land. She deserves all the help she can get.
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