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for hobby like hunting

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I don't think pepper spray should be legal. It hurts hell. If pepper spray was legal many teenagers would use it on innocent people.

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No.  I'd be killing an armed criminal who broke into my home with the intent to harm me.

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The criminal isn't armed for self-defense.  They don't have any self-defense when they are breaking into another's dwelling with the intent to harm.  The weapon is used for offense, not self-defense.  

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Stealing from someone harms them financially.

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Teenagers don't just sit around thinking of new ways to hurt innocent people...

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While a murderer or an assassin may, a burglar doesn't carry a gun for offense... A burglar doesn't go through the house and systematically shoot everyone before taking your stuff. The gun, if they have one (which as Angelito pointed out in countries where they are illegal, they almost never do), is only to "defend" themselves from any potential attackers.

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So unless the person in question believes themself important enough to have an assassin break into their house...

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Weird noone in the U.S have tried to assassinate Bush, I mean hes the pinnacle of moronity! Aint there any "brave" souls out there?

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Weird noone in the U.S have tried to assassinate Bush, I mean hes the pinnacle of moronity! Aint there any "brave" souls out there?

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On May 10, 2005, in Freedom Square, Tbilisi, Georgia, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live hand grenade toward the podium where Bush was giving a speech and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili was seated. It landed in the crowd about 65 feet (20 m) from the podium after hitting a girl, but it did not detonate. Arutyunian was arrested in July 2005, confessed, and was convicted and given a life sentence in January 2006.[221]

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I don't think pepper spray should be legal. It hurts hell. If pepper spray was legal many teenagers would use it on innocent people.

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I feel that people should not be allowed to have hand guns.  Larger guns (at least 3 feet long) are ~alright*** because you can't hide that.  If someone has a long gun you will notice it.  However smaller guns are able to be concealed, which makes them more dangerous.

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It's not like a hunting gun can't kill a human...

The loss of recreational hunting as a sport? It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make (as fun as it sounds shooting animals ...nutcase)

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If you hunt wild animals, you are in a minority of the country's population. And according to the most recent government survey the numbers of hunters have declined steadily for more than 30 years.

Some people may find it ironic that this trend could be bad for the environment, but hunters are among the strongest proponents and financial supporters for protecting and maintaining natural habitats

At approximately five-year intervals since 1955, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has sponsored a survey to assess how involved people are with wildlife. The latest National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, taken in 2006 and released in November 2007, provides estimates by category of how many people fish, hunt, and watch wildlife. Wildlife watching includes observing, photographing, and feeding wildlife. The survey also gives information on how much time and money people who are engaged in these activities spend each year.

During 2006, 71 million people watched wildlife one way or another. Almost 30 million people fished. But only 12.5 million hunted. The highest number of U.S. hunters ever recorded was in the mid-1980s, almost 17 million people; about 9 percent of the population. But as the nation's population has grown, the increase in hunters has not kept pace, going from 11 percent in 1960, to 8.3 percent by 1990, to about 6 percent in 2001. The recent survey puts the percentage down further, to 5 percent.

A disturbing trend to hunters is that the actual number of Americans who hunt is declining at an even steeper rate than the percentage.

One explanation is that the number of young people who hunt decreases every year and cannot keep pace with the number of old hunters who quit hunting. This is equivalent to a deer herd having more individuals die or leave the population each year than are added to it. Recruitment is too low to result in a sustainable population.

An additional issue is that as urban areas expand, people are farther removed from habitats where they might conveniently go to hunt. Consequently, hunting advocates diminish in number.

Nonetheless, hunting revenues are substantial. The amount of money paid by hunters in pursuit of their craft was about $23 billion last year. These include economic benefits to communities through the sale of guns, ammunition, and other hunting supplies, plus various travel expenses and accessories.

In addition to local and state taxes that benefit the public, federal excise taxes on hunting equipment contribute directly to the support of land purchases, habitat protection, and wildlife management programs.

In addition, migratory waterfowl hunters are required to purchase a federal Duck Stamp; some of the proceeds go to purchase land for wildlife refuges. Taxes from hunting activities also go for maintaining parks and wildlife refuges, and conducting surveys and research to determine the status of not only game but also some nongame species.

So a decline in hunters means a decline in revenue, some of which is used to benefit natural habitats. The hunting community pays to ensure that wildlife populations of game species are sustainable from one generation to the next, which requires that a diversity of natural habitats be kept intact, unpolluted, and undisturbed. Hunters support these efforts with their attitudes about natural habitats, and with their pocketbooks.

Environmentalists, therefore, should support hunters.

In many states, hunting clubs preserve more natural habitat than do most environmental organizations. The focus of such clubs may be on managing deer, quail, ducks, and other game species, but their role in protecting habitats along with nongame wildlife has become increasingly important. Some hunting clubs are exemplary models of private land ownership helping to preserve natural habitats.

Habitat preservation is critical for all wildlife, not just game species. The major threat to most natural ecosystems and wildlife species today is habitat degradation and destruction. Irresponsible commercial development is a leading culprit when natural habitats are destroyed, then replaced with artificial ones where most native wildlife does poorly.

I don't hunt, but I am sorry to see the steady decline in the number of hunters because it means fewer high-paying participants are working to keep America wild.

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First the issue with weapons is not all about just being robbed.  There are much worse things then being robbed.

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Second if you see the intruders face (going back to the robbery issue) he may very well kill you so as not to go to jail.  Even if you don't have a weapon.

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Now off the robbery kick (people seem to think it is the only crime).  Not everybody can defend themselves with bare hands.  Some people are pretty much immune to pepper spray, and even some handheld devices like tasers are not always an option.

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If they would be willing to carry a weapon AND break the law, most likely they would be less hesitant about killing somebody.

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Of course people care about the criminals rights before the victims.  So somebody killed a dozen people, molested children, and who knows what else.  Heaven forbid if they get roughed up while arrested or something.  Lets cry over them being hit as a child instead of mourn the lives of the people who they killed, or the innocence they robbed from somebody.

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