Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Op:Ed Hunters: To protect our social licence, we have to stop killing animals we don’t eat

The guy probably expects us to eat prairie dogs which hunters all know can carry bubonic plague. What an out of touch liberal academic the guy is, he knows not that he knows not. But what should he care after all he is a college professor.

Similarly, a referendum in the 1990s led to a ban on cougar hunting in California, not because there were too few cats, but rather because society thought that the time of hunting mountain lions was up.

Makes perfect sense to me. When the people get fed up with hunters taking care of predators (large carnivores if you want to make them sound sweet) out of sight, out of mind, they just need to make their voices heard at the ballot box.

Then they can have all of the grizzly and cougar and coyote viewing they want and those pesky deer and elk won’t be obstructing their view. As long as yuppified commies that think only animals that are hunted feel pain are framing the argument we will get drivel like this.

I could easily give up on killing predators.



but there's no season on liberals



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Is it wrong to shoot a whistle pig with a 270?

haters gonna hate, and socialists/communists are gonna screw with your rights. No big surprise. Most professors of 'higher education' have been educated far beyond their intelligence. At least half of the population are emotional sheep.

The only thing that Liberal has in common with Logic is that they both start with "L"...

Then you're an idiot. Shoot such an animal and you feed dozens of natives whose children have protein deficiency disease. Shoot such an animal and the trophy fee pays thousands of dollars to the local tribal council for schools and roads. Shoot such an animal and you might prevent a farmer from starving to death after an elephant wipes out his crop in one night.

Of course, I assume that if you caught a 35 pound largemouth bass you'd sneak home through an ally and not tell anyone. Idiot.

You could offer your opinion in a nicer way if you wanted to - just saying .

We really do need "Like" buttons here.

I got some education, and more than an average number of words...can't think of a better counter argument than this.

Killing predators has a direct impact on the availability of the edible game we hunt. Perhaps that should be a strong part of our messaging. Relative to cougars, that recent study found they killed a lot more big game than we thought.

The flaw with that position is that one group has civil rights protecting them and the other doesn't. One group needn't worry about having what they do legislated away. The other group has had some of what they do legislated away. We need to rely heavily on science to support what we do.