Concerning the hunting deaths...

[MnFats]

Ironically, this story appeared in the Wausau (Wi.) Daily Herald on Saturday. There's a large Hmong community there and in St. Paul, where the shooter lived, and this thing is going to cause a shitstorm for all of them....

www.wausaudailyherald.com

excerpt:



The 39-year-old Weston man first hunted as a small boy. "When I grew up in Laos, we worked on the farm and all that," Lee said. "My uncle taught me how to hunt with a Hmong crossbow."
Lee's hunting was put on hold when he immigrated to the United States. He worked to educate himself and eventually landed a job as a student transition support specialist at Northcentral Technical College. Eight years ago, an NTC colleague talked him into hunting once again. Only this time around, he'll be taking part in a great Wisconsin tradition - a nine-day gun season that begins today.

"Being out there in the woods is physical therapy for me," he said. "Being up close with nature kind of reminds of me of my homeland. Getting away from civilization and the distractions, it's kind of like a time of renewal."
Hunting and fishing is as much a part of the Hmong lifestyle as it is for those born and raised in Wisconsin, said Thomas Lee, Wausau's minority affairs director.

The difference is that in Laos, regulations requiring hunters and anglers to buy licenses and adhere to bag limits didn't exist. And sometimes Hmong people don't realize how many rules exist.