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From: hammy@hou2d.UUCP
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Subject: Elmer Fudd, bunny-burros, and Bambi-burgers
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Date: Wed, 14-Dec-83 17:54:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 14 17:54:03 1983
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OK, you wascly wabbit...  I got you now!!!  Eh! Eh! Eh!

Bang!.. Bang-Bang!!... Bang-Bang-Bang!!!

Ehhhhhhhhhh! What's up, Doc?!?!?

Well, I hope all you pro- and anti- Elmer Fuddists out there will
lay down your arms for a minute and let the air clear of all the
bullets.

I happened to have been born and raised out West.  In Tucson, Az., to
be specific, an urban spot amongst the wilderness.  Both of my parents
and my oldest brother hunt and fish regularly, and I grew up eating
more game than domestic meat: quail, dove, rabbit, deer, and trout.
Now that you know that I am unbiased,... I will take a firm stand and
state that I agree with both sides to some degree.  (I am practicing
to be a politician!)

Hunting is an important facet of wildlife management, both in terms of
population control and generation of operating funds.  Then again,
wildlife management is necessary due to the removal of the predator
species, which occurred in part to hunting for sport and to "protect"
domestic animals, also in part to the overall incompatability between
man and other predator species.  So I say YEA game hunting, BOO to
predator sport hunting.

Now, let's talk HUNTERS.  Hunters, in general, are more appreciative
and respectful of the GREAT outdoors than the general population.
More so than naturalists, backpackers, hikers, and campers, I'm not
so sure.  However, like the rest of the general population, there
are enough idiot-type-hunters, those that make Elmer seem like Davey
Crockett, to cause one to fear for his life on opening-day of the
season.  Lebanon would seem like a picnic in the park.

However, let's hope that hunters are not "emotionally disturbed" as
Alan speculated, lest he and Peter "Blowin' away Bambi" Moore become
open season to some deranged Boy's Lifer.  Heck, next the lunatic
Elmer might declare open season on the designers of those "godless"
68000 chips.  He might plug Little Orphan Annie.  Of course, such
a crazy would be easily caught, for he would be heavily into symbolism
and would have a GOD BLESS MY .22 bumpersticker.

                          O.K. resume firing,

                          Pat Hamilton
                          (BTL HO 2K-434, 201-949-0280, ..hou2d!hammy)