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From: franka@tekcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 12:47:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  8 12:47:53 1983
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tekcad!franka    Dec  8 09:47:00 1983

/***** tekcad:net.flame / ucbcad!moore /  6:36 am  Dec  8, 1983*/
	The question is not whether killing animals is acceptable,
but whether it acceptable to kill animals for fun.  The average hunter
is not out there to feed his family (irregardless of whether he eats
his kill),  he is blowing away Bambi for personal thrills.

	Peter Moore
/* ---------- */
	Most of the people I grew up with DID eat what they killed (with the
exception of raccoons and other bounty animals whose skins were sold). Of
course, this was in the rural midwest where we knew that game animals are meant
to be eaten and that man's place in the food chain is even more important than
it is out west (because most of the natural predators have died out). Maybe
your "urban cowboys" from the Bay Area like to go out and shoot animals just
to watch them die, but most hunters from rural areas know that you eat what
you kill.
	Which brings up another of my pet peeves. Namely urban hunters who
go out hunting maybe once a year, shooting at whatever moves, and who usually
bag as many cows, trucks, and people as they do game animals. They handle guns
maybe once a year and are DANGEROUS. Personally I think that a law should be
enacted that anyone can own a gun, but ONLY if they can show that they have
gone to a shooting range at least "n" times (n open to debate) in a year to
make sure that they know how to use the damn thing. The problem is not people
with guns, but people who don't know how to use guns responsibly having guns.

               				From the truly menacing,
   /- -\       				but usually underestimated,
    <->        				Frank Adrian
               				(tektronix!tekcad!franka)