Someone from one of those states where they shoot squirrels or lizards want to weigh in? What about birds?
I can think of a couple wingnuts I know who might hunt wolves from a helicopter, but I can think of quite a few more who froth at the mouth about how wolf re-introduction is unnecessary.
But for me the whole resonance of the wolf-hunting, gun-toting NRA member image plays out in a funny way against Obama's comments awhile ago about people who cling to their God and guns.
Around here, in the wilds of urban Seattle, the problem is not really hunters, though we can find a couple stupid specimens of those. The bigger problem is a bunch of 14-year-olds in the 'hood (I LIVE there so I can call it that) who think it's really ducky to shoot at each other for not much reason that makes sense to anyone else.
See the lesson I got from growing up around a lot of people who hunt is respect and I halfway think we should be having mandatory gun safety along with the sex ed in junior HS.
And I am not just posting that to see how many people all across the spectrum I can cause to have conniptions.....
DC Seattle WA
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Percival Myers <permaceaem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:16 PM, John Thornton wrote:
> > For whatever it may be worth almost none of the hunters I know or am
> related
> > too think hunting wolves by helicopter is copasetic.
>
> Aerial hunting isn't hunting but then, the wolves aren't being hunted.
> Their population is being controlled, for reasons that are arguable
> and beyond the scope of your post or this reply. Think of it as a
> Texas rattle snake drive, you'll quickly gain a better understanding
> of why some are motivated to do it.
>
> > A small number of extreme right-wingers think it should remain legal
> because
> > they believe that attempting to ban it would be a slippery slope towards
> > confiscating their guns even though they claim they wouldn't engage in
> such
> > a practice themselves. They think almost every gun or hunting related
> piece
> > of legislation is a disguised attempt by liberals to confiscate their
> guns
> > however.
>
> Are you a gun owner, Mr. Thornton? I suspect not. Regardless, read
> this and then tell me whether you think any gun owner has legitimate
> cause to be cautious, if not suspicious.
>
> http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcnobody.html
>
> > The very rural parts of my family who love to hunt think the practice is
> > disgusting but members of my family are involved in wolf relocation
> projects
> > as well as shelters for unwanted pet wolf and wolf-hybrids.
>
> What plays in Peoria isn't always a reliable indicator of what will do
> well elsewhere. No one should need to remind you that Alaska has a
> climate and vastness that is unmatched anywhere else in the union.
> Apparently you do need the reminder though, consider yourself
> reminded.
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