I am not a prude about killing and eating animals and my wife looks great in her fur coat. I enjoy BBQ regularly and nothing beats sitting down to a meal of striped bass caught by you and your kids that morning. I firmly believe that God put animals in His world to serve man.

And altough I do hunt, I understand the allure and think that deer hunting is great for those that enjoy it.

On the other hand, viewing some photos of hunters with their lion trophies made me sad.

Two questions:

1) Is there a significant fraction of enthusiastic deer hunters who would not hunt lion even if given the opportunity?

2) Is lion hunting similar to the New Jersey bear hunt, which does not bother me. Too many of those big felines and they need to be thinned?

Last edited by Bushmaster1313; 11/03/11.