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From: holmes@dalcs.UUCP (Ray Holmes)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Killing Bambi?
Message-ID: <253@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 03:20:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 03:20:18 1983
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The killing of "defenceless" animals by hunters for "fun", "sport", "herd
manigment", "ecology", or whatever has gone on for quite some time and will,
in doubt, go on for some time in the future.  I would like to make some
points on this issue which I haven't seen expressed:

	1)  The argument that hunters eat their kill and that non-hunters
	    are somewhow guilty of eating animals that someone else had to
	    kill is at least pecular.  I am a non-hunter, but I wouldn't eat
	    any animal that I wouldn't be willing to kill for food (yes I
	    can look Bambi in the eyes and shoot).  I eat beaf regularly and
	    would kill the cows if necessairy.

	2)  The worst problem with hunters is that they regularly bag game
	    that should be out of bounds (cows, dogs, and people).  The
	    trigger happy hunter is not only in the comics, and most hunters
	    don't (I take that back: many hunters don't) know which end of
	    the gun to point.

	3)  A prime gripe of mine is that I own a fair strech of woodland
	    and I like the fall.  It would be nice to take a walk on my own
	    land in the fall (I never have because I fear for my life).  The
	    laws here do not allow me to stop hunting on my land (and it
	    doesn't constitute trespass).

My proposed solution for all of the above is, instead of providing all of
the public financed "game preserves", we should be providing "hunting
preserves" where one can hunt at will.  This way the hunters can have their
fun and if they shoot someone, well it's only another hunter.

					Ray Holmes