Hunting: the 2012-2013 Hunting Season ends and CNCN and FACE Italia take stock; however, the commitment to training for the safety of hunters does not end.
FACE Italia (Federcaccia, Anuu Migratoristi, Enalcaccia, Libera Caccia) and the National Hunting and Nature Committee (CNCN) draw a balance between lights and shadows for the hunting season that has come to an end, definitely aiming at the continuous training of Italian hunters to minimize accidents and their consequences. The positive elements are linked to the growth of the hunting world in terms of awareness of one's responsibilities, possibility and need to operate in a common purpose, manifested on several occasions before the start and during the course of the season while, on the other hand, they do not intend avoid tackling with further commitment the issue of a year characterized by accidents that sometimes involved the security front.
In fact, in recent years the hunting associations have made even more efforts than they already did to promote all aspects related to safety, but even with a downward trend in the medium term, the number of accidents in this hunting season is to be considered. deserving of further attention and operation. However, a case history that is less and less extensive than the one that some anti-hunt associations spread on every occasion, making a cynical and pretext use of it, raving about social emergency, public safety and so on, aimed at the abolition of the hunting in the name of animal rights ideology.
Always forgetting or pretending not to know that many outdoor activities, theoretically less dangerous - think of skiing, hiking, cycling, mushroom hunting - every year they make more victims of hunting, employ more public resources for the rescues and also involve people unrelated to that practice. Aware of this, instead of concentrating on useless and instrumental controversies aimed at obtaining some visibility, the hunting world continues its work to minimize the risks associated with hunting.
Before the opening of the hunt, the Face Italia Hunting Associations, with the support of CNCN and the sports world, distributed a safety vademecum distributed in hundreds of thousands of copies and organized the Safety Days throughout Italy, days dedicated to promoting and consolidate the application of safety rules and the control of hunting weapons.
Operations not of facade but of substance, which are certainly the right path and which we intend to follow again and with ever greater commitment, starting immediately to repeat, multiplying them, these appointments and organizing more and more meetings dedicated to safety.
Numerous and periodic meetings that already take place in the territory organized at regional and provincial level involving instructors and shooting directors from the two Federations of Coni Fitav and Fidasc able to highlight and transmit to the participants in a concrete way the safety features of the weapon and its correct use in all conditions, both shooting and handling, both on the hunting ground and outside it, so that its use by the hunter always takes place in the context of maximum knowledge, mastery and awareness, such as to eliminate the every risk as much as possible.
The model adopted, to arrive at an increasingly responsible and safe hunt, must be based on continuous training of enthusiasts, which aims at the most punctual and complete compliance with safety standards, in addition to that of all legal regulations, in order to strive in a concrete and constructive way to avoid any accident that unfortunately, due to tragic fatalities, may occur in the exercise of hunting, as it happens in any other human activity - sports, work, domestic activities - and which certainly deserves maximum attention combined with that human respect that is too often lacking in our country.
31 January 2013
CNCN - FACE Italy