If your best argument is hearing loss, they make ear protectors that amplify normal sounds and suppress the weapon. If you make suppressors easily available to the hunters, how long is it going to take to get into the hands of criminals. How many rifles and handguns a year are stolen. Now gang A is shooting at Gang B with suppressed weapons. Gang B has to buy, build or steal suppressed weapons to keep up. I guess the bright side is it wouldn't wake you up when somebody double taped a neighbor or family member. It takes a complete idiot to think that what we would gain enough in hunting with suppressed weapons to offset the damage and increased risk to our society.