The age of "hunters" in Alabama

Would someone explain to me the reasoning in allowing a child, at age 5, to deer hunt with "an adult," yet not be allowed to drive without an adult present until a child is 16? You put a child as young as five-years-old in the woods with a bunch of hunters and a loaded gun, but expel them as young as nine if they bring an unloaded gun to school, and don't let them get a driver's license until the age of 16. Surely, I am not the only person in the state of Alabama that finds this beyond irresponsible!