Bunko.T wrote:
Be that as it may, what amazes me about this debate, is Hunting??
Who goes hunting? For what, how often & what do they do with the victim? Eat it? Just kill it for the fun??
It strikes me that they haven't developed much past the Wild West days, or further back to just out of the trees. Is the hunting argument a cover for the real reason? Self defence or protecting your property?
Do these gun crazies really want to kill a person who just might be very hungry & destitute enough to want to break in for food.
It really looks like Wild West mentality to want a gun. But it says a lot about them that installs a twit like trump. Your country is going backwards.
Be that as it may, what amazes me about this debat... (
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First, hunting is a right to survive which predates our Constitution by thousands of years. Man is an omnivore, not a vegetarian. Animal protein is essential for development of the human brain. Animals are not victims; you're trying to define the argument into proving a negative. Animals in the wild always have the advantage. They know their territory far better than the hunter, and the odds of bagging your game is less than 50%, since animals sense you far faster than you sense them.
Even trophy hunters don't waste the meat. In Africa, Alaska, Northern Canada, etc., the meat from the animal is processed and donated to the locals. Animals, unless poached, are not wasted; even bones and hides are used.
Yes, there are fewer hunters for any number of reasons, but those who do enjoy a right, not a privilege, and its a right for which the hunters pay in terms of licenses, taxes, and user fees which non-hunters don't pay a dime. Since you don't hunt, you don't get to have a say.
Legal hunting is what has kept any number of species from going extinct. Deer, elk, moose, bear, etc., all have strict limits on the number of animals which can be hunted per hunting season. Because of illegal hunting in the early 20th century, huge numbers of wildlife nearly went extinct, but legislation sponsored by hunters actually saved entire species. And, hunters have forced legislatures to pass laws to keep idiots from interfering with a legal act, and probably saved their stupid lives.
Since you're an Australian, you have no concept of freedom as we do in America, and you've allowed your government to run roughshod over your individual rights.