Quail Hunting: My Two Cents

First:

IT WAS A FUCKING ACCIDENT!!

... I think. Am I missing something?

Second:

C'mon guys, let's go shoot some birds, or some deer, or some turkey... I don't care, I just want to shoot a freaking animal and have a couple beers. -- A sporting hunter, from somewhere

Really though, call me captain naivté, but why do we need to have a sport that involves the use of firearms? Why do we need guns? Because they can be fun if used properly? Yeah well snorting cocaine can be fun, too, but we don't let people play around with it. Not legally anyway. Imagine, if you will, everyone packing a kilo.

On a more serious note, I've always wondered what it is that drives the avid gun enthusiast and/or hunter (excluding those that hunt so that they can eat, so that they can live). Is it similar to the adolescent excitement I felt as a child when I got my first BBgun? What kind of gratification is this? Does target practice merely serve to boost one's sense of superiority or ego? Or is it just cool to hear something go *boom*?

Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people.