Lack of responsibility, not clothes, is to blame

I have lived and hunted in Idaho for more than 50 years and, to this day, I have yet to see an animal that resembles a person. People usually walk upright and wear some type of clothing while animals usually walk on four legs and have hair on their bodies.

I have seen lots of different people in the hunting areas, children waiting for school buses, surveyor. Forest Service workers, game wardens, hikers, fishermen, hunters, guides and many others, wearing all different colors, camouflage, yellow, black, brown, blue, green, red and orange, and they all have one thing in common — they all look like people. Hunter orange would save a few people from being shot, if every person using that area was required to wear it — everyone.

Hunters need to take responsibility for what they are shooting at and, if they have any doubts, have the gun pointed down and the safety on.

In Idaho, hunters need to identify all targets because of the many different animals we cannot shoot — grizzly bear, caribou, wolves, people and some types of moose, deer and elk.

I wonder if bicycle riders and pedestrians had worn hunter orange, could driver's have identified them and avoided all accidents they had in Idaho this year.

P.S. Should mandatory hunter orange only be for people with a hunting license, hunting or anyone using or living in the hunting area.

GARY REASOR

Sandpoint