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Monday, March 07, 2005
I feel the same way about some hunters...Hunter Mark Smith welcomes wild birds on to his property, but if he sees a cat, he thinks the "invasive" animal should be considered fair game. I understand it's great sport and all that, but I'm not really going to be impressed by a deer hunter until he slays a deer by strapping antlers to his head and winning the head butting contest. Or at least lunges on it and severes a critical artery with his teeth, à la mountain lions. Shooting an animal and dragging it home proves first and foremost the superiority of a human race that figured out gunpowder and combustion engines, and only second the skill and cunning of the hunter.
I don't wish to degrade hunters. But there are some hunters in need of degrading, starting with those like this man whose primary intent seems not to experience what it is to be a human locked in the cycles of nature but merely to kill things he doesn't like. I grew up in a pretty rural area and every fall the local McDonald's filled for a month with guys in orange "camouflage." An alien observing the phenomenon might well have determined that deer were not the entity most in need of thinning out.
Having grown up around in a rural area, I've known lots of good guys (and gals!) who were hunters. Kudos to Smith for dragging them down and confirming the biases of anyone who doesn't like hunters. Maybe he's angling to be the new posterboy for the gun control lobby.
(Found at the Corner)
posted by gbarto at 4:24 PM
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