>>Here in the Périgord noir it's hunting country so about every household has one or more hunting rifles and yet gun related crime is quite uncommon. Must be something in the genes i guess.
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>The hunting can have other consequences. My brother was down in Southern France a couple of weeks ago when someone shot and wounded a boar near his campsite. The wounded boar came careering into the campsite charging at people and he pulled hamstring fending it off. He was not happy.

Recently someone shot a muftija (muslim priest of sorts) somewhere in Bosnia. First versions mentioned a hunting accident, but that was quickly retracted (but few folks kept screenshots, internet is a bitch) and it now read "while on his round feeding the animals". The point here is that when hunting there's some regulation and good practices, so the hunters carry at least one bright colored item - on head, shoulders or anywhere on upper body, precisely to avoid this kind of accident. However, the writer of the first version of the article forgot to check when the legal hunting season is - and of course it was not at the time, so they were illegally hunting and they knew it, so they dressed in camouflage. Which is why they shot each other when they split into two teams.