Hunter Orange: Unconstitutional or a Life Saver?

     One hundred forty-eight feet away from Walt, another hunter watched from the cover of another snowy hemlock. Something was moving in the trees up ahead. There was a patch of fur. It had to be a buck. For 15 minutes, the hunter watched. Then, in the early-afternoon hours of Dec. 14, 1974, the crack of his rifle split the quiet, dreadful woods.
     Walter Witt died that day, mistaken for a deer. He would have most likely not been killed that day if he had been wearing blaze orange, commonly called hunter orange. Pennsylvania does currently have a requirement that you wear 250 square inches of blaze orange. This year Oregon enacted its first hunter orange law requiring hunters under 18 to wear a blaze orange "hat or upper body garment".  No hunter orange law was enacted for hunters over 18. Just requiring our kids to wear orange is a big mistake. What kind of example are we setting for our kids by us adults not wearing orange? If a state is going to have a hunter orange law it needs to be mandatory for hunters of all ages. Hopefully somebody up at ODFW will have enough sense to enact a orange law for all hunters, but don't hold your breath, ODFW has history of taking years to get anything done. What are your opinions on hunter orange laws? Feel free to share in the comments section. And remember, next time you head into the woods put on some orange, it could save your life.