Here is one of the latest press releases fromADUC (Association for the rights of users and consumers) about the firearms license: “A hunter from La Spezia tripped during a wild boar hunt with about twenty of his other companions and was seriously injured. We hope that he has been hurt as little as possible and comes out alive and unscathed. Hunters, early January 2022, around killing animals for fun (they do not hunt to feed themselves….), We do not know if they had faunal balance projects… and, in any case, if they did, it was their will because we do not believe they were entrusted with such a task by the authorities.
Hunters, people with firearms. Not just hunters. If you think about how US citizens are armed and how they flaunt, some might think that this is the case. In the US every now and then there is some tragic shooting not really of self-defense, while here we “limit ourselves” to that ex-candidate for mayor who in Milan wanders armed in the hospital where he works, or that administrator of Voghera who, arguing with an unarmed homeless man, asserted himself by shooting and killing him. Humans with weapons to attack and defend, legitimately. Weapons that can be anywhere, carried and wielded by people who are not assigned to public safety, but to their own and used at their discretion.
Is it necessary for a private individual to legitimately continue to go around armed? Is the firearm license useful? Well - it is said - some criminals are such with weapons (always illegitimate), how could I defend myself otherwise ... Are we sure that an armed criminal reacts in the same way towards an armed or unarmed person? It is not a clash between two armed people that is a harbinger of greater danger of injury and death, for both armed? Let's go back to our hunter. He was not there to feed himself but to live in nature and relationship with animals.
But what kind of relationship is one in which one has the power to take the life of another living being who, if you do not look for it, does not consider you and whose presence does not harm you or, if it does (as is sometimes the case with wild boars) there are the authorities in charge of the need, authorities who have other methods (prevention) so as not to shoot at themselves or at others? Hunter and private individual who wants to defend himself (or attack, as we have seen). Two aspects of the same problem: the firearms license. Is the firearm license necessary or a harbinger of greater danger, for oneself and for nature? ".