Being acquainted with hunting, firearms, and silencers before writing an article about them seems like a good idea, right? The editorial board of Raleigh’s News Observer would beg to differ.
According to an unsigned editorial from the Sunday edition, when the state legislature lifted the state’s silencer hunting ban this past spring, it put the public at risk. The author apparently believes that hunters are out there steadily banging away with their unsuppressed firearms all the live long day. The writer opines that this practice must be the only thing keeping people from being gunned down while traipsing over hill and dale in the Tarheel state.
