Sorry, I just saw that. I think both are a replacement for a much more dignified way of living.
In light of School Shootings. What about the shooter themselves?
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Last thing, the reason I'm so invested in this conversation is that it takes a long time for the deer to die after having been shot. That the hunter has to let it run away and look for it later. It's not fair on the deer. Have you tried the head and neck shot? I looked it up on youtube, I did see that they have a hunting culture in New Zealand. Expand your horizons man! Forget the Brady Bunch whoever they are. Have you ever sat outside a cafe in France?
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Not across the board it isn’t…Florida’s laws (or lack thereof) are a perfect example.
http://smartgunlaws.org/category/state-private-sales-of-guns/
As far is being a “sportsman” goes…it would be fair if the deer had on bullet-proof vests while you shot at them with a high powered rifle hidden in a tree hundreds of yards away…then at least you would have to get a head shot every time.
Why can’t you just use a high-powered camera lens if you respect nature so much?
Why can’t you just use a high-powered camera lens if you respect nature so much?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/mass-shootings-threat-assessment-shooter-fbi-columbine
Inside the Race to Stop the Next Mass Shooter
Inside the Race to Stop the Next Mass Shooter
Sometimes we stump our toe. Most of all, sometimes elephants fall in love with lions.
Neither are replacements. We have a leash law here, and it is against the law to smoke in a park. Texting, smoking, and letting your dog run free at a park are not replacements.
My deer are dead before they fall. France doesn't have big rainbow trout. Send me two round trip tickets and I'll go sit at a cafe in France. Round trip!
If you hunted, you would have tried a head shot and found there are better ways. Hunting with a camera? What will I eat?
Visit Africa with your camera. You will see life....and death so that life can live.
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Some people go to the markets and stores; others, fend for themselves. Does it matter how game is killed? Yes, it does. My meat doesn't get covered with all kinds of who knows what. The earth and the waters provide for humankind. That will only change when there is no more earth or people.....or waters. I have not asked a single person to try hunting. If you do, go with someone experienced and learn your weapon of choice. What I have made fun of are the games available to people that teach to kill others, while people cry out against gun owners. If a child is interested in a gun, most likely he will learn from someone. Who do you want them to learn from?
Porpoise-free tuna? Glad someone stepped in. Limits on sizes of catches and creel limits on fish? Glad someone is looking down the road. Federal Migratory Bird Stamps? Who bought and paid for most of the refuges and such? Hunters. People give back when they take. Most take it far more seriously than others could imagine.
Federal Duck Stamps are conservation revenue stamps; - 98 percent of the purchase price goes directly to help acquire and protect wetland habitat and purchase conservation easements for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Wetlands acquired with Duck Stamp dollars help purify water, aid in flood control, reduce soil erosion and sedimentation, and enhance outdoor recreation opportunities.
Since 1934, more than 135 million Federal Duck Stamps have been purchased. These purchases have generated almost $1 billion for the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, which has been used to purchase close to 6 million acres of habitat.
The area protected is roughly the size of Vermont. Read about the duck stamps, and see where people have erased the fact hunters spent most of that money. We keep erasing our history.
Porpoise-free tuna? Glad someone stepped in. Limits on sizes of catches and creel limits on fish? Glad someone is looking down the road. Federal Migratory Bird Stamps? Who bought and paid for most of the refuges and such? Hunters. People give back when they take. Most take it far more seriously than others could imagine.
Federal Duck Stamps are conservation revenue stamps; - 98 percent of the purchase price goes directly to help acquire and protect wetland habitat and purchase conservation easements for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Wetlands acquired with Duck Stamp dollars help purify water, aid in flood control, reduce soil erosion and sedimentation, and enhance outdoor recreation opportunities.
Since 1934, more than 135 million Federal Duck Stamps have been purchased. These purchases have generated almost $1 billion for the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, which has been used to purchase close to 6 million acres of habitat.
The area protected is roughly the size of Vermont. Read about the duck stamps, and see where people have erased the fact hunters spent most of that money. We keep erasing our history.
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I never said you couldn’t go hunt…just don’t call yourself a “Sportsman” when you do…it’s not a game, it’s not a sport…you’re killing an animal..you’re a hunter.
It’s not very good odds for game going up against mankind and all our ways to call, trick, trap, or track…and then, does it have a chance to dodge bullets?
Yes some get food at stores, I’m not vegan, but I do know where my food is sourced and how it is treated and dispatched luckily because of where I live…others don’t always have that luxury. (Which is something that shouldn’t be a luxury, but standard practice)
I have no doubt that you use what you kill, but just don’t call it a sport if you also claim to take a knee and gives thanks and have this deep respect for nature and it’s bounty - that’s all.
Target shooting is a sport.
Killing is killing, that’s all.
Video games do not teach people to use weapons. The only thing that playing video games teaches you to do is to play video games. Handling weapons teaches people to use weapons.
Blaming people for this and getting enraged over their lack of respect is preposterous. Of course people are disrespectful, idiotic, incompetent, deranged, whatever. There's no limit to the bad things that can be said about them. That's the whole reason why it is so irresponsible for a society to give them convenient access to weapons of deadly force.
Blaming people for this and getting enraged over their lack of respect is preposterous. Of course people are disrespectful, idiotic, incompetent, deranged, whatever. There's no limit to the bad things that can be said about them. That's the whole reason why it is so irresponsible for a society to give them convenient access to weapons of deadly force.