Obviously you don't know me or anything about me or anything about where I have or have not lived! I used to be a wildlife manager in an area with over 100 deer per square mile; I used to issue hundreds of deer damage permits; ...
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Deer AND elk are valuable wildlife resources that can and should be managed so they DONT become social problems. They're not worthless "rats" that should be treated like vermin...
Rats get trapped, poisoned, shot and otherwise exterminated when they become a problem. Very unlike deer who are only shot when they become a problem, like the "hundreds" of deer presumably shot and killed with permits you've issued ...
