I lived in upstate NY for 5 years. Every single year, mostly on opening day, a couple of people got killed due to negligence and pure stupidity.
Too many Yahoos that drink the night before, and then next morning shoots at anything that move or make noise. Or shoot themselves with a fully loaded Casull 454 climbing a tree stand.
I remember some pretty horrible stories, like the father that killed his son with a shotgun when he heard a rustling in the bushes, then killed himself when the others in his party went to get help.
Also lived in AZ for 14 years. The number of people shot by hunters during hunting season was astoundingly low. Maybe 2 or 3 all the years I lived there.
But AZ spreads their seasons over a number of months, not like NY where you only have a couple of days, and hunters have the mentality "I got to get that deer right now"..