im srry but u must have met some horrible hunters to take a staff..havent seen a hunter with a staff since about lvl 20 anyway sir the same could be said about warriors taking every melee weapon and a fair amount of the ranged weapons aswel, needing it for an off spec or just cuz they "could" use it.
I will however agree that hunters should not be the only class alowed to roll on this. In the case that the hunter passes or if he and the rest of the raid do not care if you roll on it by all means roll on it get you a nice new pulling weapon.
But please dont steal this from out from under our nose. And as a side note dont judge an entire class by the actions of a few... they will dig their own ditch in time.