Many people in this country hunt to live

[bhikkhu]

185. In my rural area, hunting and fishing are the luxuries of the wealthy

Between fuel, ammunition, supplies, tackle, boats, 4-wheelers, etc, the constant joke among the hunters is how much per pound that last deer or elk cost. Usually its in the hundreds, sometimes in the thousands.

In Oregon, you can buy more meat with the cost of hunting and fishing licenses than you are likely to ever bring out of the forest. Some of the native tribes have grandfathered in hunting rights, and they can probably break even pretty well; everyone else is either poaching, lying , or has more money than they know what to do with if they "hunt to live".

on edit - none of that's an anti-gun argument, nor is it an anti-hunting argument. Where I live everyone has guns and probably most people hunt, but the OP's notion would be laughed out of the room here!