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From: root@trwatf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: The right to be a lethal danger
Message-ID: <972@trwatf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 11:50:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwatf.972
Posted: Mon Jun 10 11:50:59 1985
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In article <347@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA> rafferty@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA (Colin Rafferty) writes:
>
> 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".

Beer-swigging baboons swinging rifles about in a ritual orgy of killing.

Right.

Some of us are bow-hunters who can't afford the luxury of swigging beer
and swinging through the trees like a bunch of macho assholes.  When you
go one-on-one with an animal it becomes an experience you can't duplicate
with a cannon.  "Gosh... were'd the buck go?  All that's left is some fur."

This is probably no better in your eyes... but it does make the hunter
respect his quarry and lends more of a feeling of wholeness about the
job.  Also requires a lot more skill!  You aren't quite as removed from
the killing as when you're blowing the brains out of an animal you can
only see through a sniper-scope.
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