Re: What's Wrong With Deer Hunting?

"David Raleigh Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:36:15 +0100, Ray wrote:
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> >
> > "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?
>
> So you're just as liable to shoot another hunter or a kid.
>
> > There is another alternate.
> >
> > Leave them alone.
>
> Not really.  They spread Lyme disease and they can be a serious garden
> pest.  I don't want to introduce lynxes or wolves into a densely populated
> suburb.

Plus, their numbers easily double every two years.  This year two million,
two years it's four million, two more years it's eight.

The more deer, the more damage, the more car accidents.
An acquaintance of mine was killed after a deer came through
his windshield.

>
> --
> Why should any country entrust its young people to the leadership of the
same
> morons who *invaded the wrong country*?  Answer: For lots of money.  The
U.S.
> is broke, a poor credit risk, and stiffed "partners" in the first Gulf
War.
> D. Raleigh Arnold dra@ http://www.openguitar.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]