A couple fun facts for you graykeeper.  Accidental gun deaths have plummeted from a high of nearly 1900 in 1981 to the current level of less than 600 in 2015. Yet, our population has grown by by nearly 36% (85 million people) in the same time period.  In the same time period, gun homicides peaked around 1992 at around 7.0/100,000. Yet today the rate is 3.6/100,000.  All of this happened while guns in the public nearly doubled to today's number of almost 350 million.  It is unfortunate that a U.S. military veteran had to die this way. I have sympathy for his friends and family. As for the 77 yr. old guy hunting bears... better to die that way than on the couch.