The season has just begun and the professionals of the looting and the mystification are already at work. Yesterday, the hunting time had not yet ended, and there were already reports that were as sensational as they were inaccurate. The agencies, in fact, broke the news that they were counted in the morning already three dead and one seriously injured in hunting accidents. Now, there are no doubt the dead and the wounded, and our association is close to the hospitalized hunter and bereaved families, but we need to put order. The three dead, in fact, can hardly prove the danger of hunting in Italy, in fact, the first was unfortunately hit by a poacher in Sardinia before the start of the hunting season, the second is a Swiss citizen who died in Switzerland and we do not see why he should be counted in the Italian statistics and the third, protagonist of the episode in which the injured person was also involved, he suffered a tragic fall.
These are undoubtedly serious episodes, but they do not justify the alarmist tones heard yesterday, in fact, the first was the victim of a criminal act that has nothing to do with hunting, the second certainly has little to do with Italian hunters and on the third episode that means, unfortunately in the mountains, the misfortunes happen, as the hundreds of hikers and mushroom hikers that this summer animated the news in the newspapers without anyone asking for the suspension of this activity.
The really bad part of this story is the pleased attitude with which many of the animal rights groups have given this news and the incorrect cut with which many media outlets have reported them, without verifying the facts and making comments only on the usual acronyms, without leaving the hunting world the possibility of contradiction. As we have already done in these days, we of Arch Hunting we will continue to call for prudence and respect for the rules, aware that if by doing so we save a life or avoid a wounded person, we will be successful; aware, however, that hunters are responsible people and that, despite the animal rights activists, there is no safety emergency in relation to hunting.