Re: What's Wrong With Deer Hunting?

"Doug Haxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > I have long thought that deer hunting should only be permitted with
> > a spear and bird hunting with an arrow, bolas, or net.  The "sport" part
> > of "blood sport" is a joke.
>
> Suppose I want to shoot a deer with a gun instead of a bow.  Why
> should I prevented from doing so?
>
> If you reply, "it's not sporting", I'll agree.  It's not.
>
> So what?
> >
> > Where deer are a pest, hunting them the way the NA's did is the best
> > way.  Close the schools and have the whole community drive them to
> > slaughter.  DaveA
>
> Oh yeah, that'll go over well :-)
>
> Here's an alternative:  just let the people who *want* to kill deer
> hunt them.
>
> Doug
There is another alternate.

Leave them alone.