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From: rafferty@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA (Colin Rafferty)
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Subject: Re: The right to be a lethal danger
Message-ID: <347@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 17:11:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 17:11:14 1985
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> > > I have been hunting with friends and relatives, in Wisconsin, and have
> > > been taught the proper handling of firearms. I had great fun doing it
> > > as a kid, and learned tremendous respect for the environment as a
> > > result.
> > 
> > Gee, this must be the same kind of respect for the enviroment that
> > strip miners have.
> > 
> > Paul Wilcox-Baker.
> 
> 	I find that in my six years of hunting in northern California
> (Shasta and Lassen counties), that my appreciation for the beauty of the
> wilderness tends to be somewhat different than that of your everday 
> strip miner.  I don't feel that I am out to rip something out of the
> ground, but to just be out enjoying the splendour of nature, and if I
> happen to be lucky enough to see a legal buck (a male deer for you
> clueless city folk :-) ), then that makes the experience that much more
> worthwhile.  So, unless you've actually been out and tried to learn some
> respect for nature, keep your judgements of hunters to yourself.  

So, we can't judge hunters unless we've gone out and learned respect for
nature.  But the only way to do that is to stalk and attempt to kill
harmless animals.  Sounds fucking reasonable to me.  


> 	Also, I never did shoot a deer.  That just goes to negate the 
> argument that deer are defenseless creatures.  Nature has provided them
> with an incredible set of senses -- hearing, smell, and although colorblind,
> acute vision --  one hell of a match for mankind's high powered rifles and
> scopes.  They are one hell of alot tougher to bag than most people believe.
> 
> 	Sam Mccall III

Not only are you an uncaring and cruel person (and I use this term loosely),
but you're a loser even when it comes to hunting.  However, that may be a
boon.  Maybe if all the blood-fiends out there were as incompatent as you,
the deer wouldn't have to worry.  

I just wish that all you gun-toting fools would really learn respect nature,
and put your guns in your bedrooms where they could protect your house from
your real enemies, like burglers, et. al., instead of swigging beer and
running around the forest waving their guns around like some macho assholes.
(Note the phallic symbolism that goes along with "high powered rifles".

----
            Colin Rafferty { Math Department, Carnegie-Mellon University }

"... N.R.A. hunters, who drink beer, don't vote, and lie to their wives
 about where they were all last weekend."
			-Governor Mario Cuomo (NY-D)