Well first I would say, like I've been saying a bunch lately, you've really changed! Then I would say how does that not turn to whoever wanting to ban gun hunting next? Plenty of people lose, gut shot, etc deer every year with guns as well. What is stopping them from banning hunting altogether then? Hunting has the risk of injuring an animal and I don't think any regulation is going to minimize that enough because you still have human error as well as the complexity of the game doing who knows what as youre trying to kill it.
My thoughts (and they're just that, just mine and just thoughts) go like this.
Do we eat meat, knowing it is a relatively inefficient way of converting solar energy to calories for people and that it comes with side effects of cruelty to sentient animals and an impact to the overall ecosystem?
If no, hunting is obviously out.
If yes, then the question becomes how do we get the most meat with the least suffering and environmental impact.
I think hunting beats factory farming for sure. I'm not sure how it stacks with small-scale farming with the specific goal of reducing harm.
From there, I think the question is how do hunters reduce environmental impact and reduce suffering. I'd be for a hard look at a lot of atv use, species-specific management, supplemental feeding, travelling to hunt, trophy taking, and harvest methods.
I don't think we can currently in good faith eliminate hunting given how we get the bulk of our calories. But, I have a knee-jerk reaction against anybody who tells me there's a question I shouldn't bring up. Either it's fine, in which case there's no harm questioning the belief, or it's a bad belief, in which case it needs to go.