Will it ever end in New Jersey? Last week a 300-pound bear attacked a man’s sheep in Denville. The sheep was badly wounded and had to be killed. The bear was found by police and killed as well. It seems that few care much about the farmer, Jim DiGuiseppi’s, sheep or the prospects that if bears in New Jersey are becoming that aggressive, perhaps there’s too many of them. They would rather rag on those who shot the bear and oppose hunting as a viable option for bear management.
Here are some comments readers at NJ.com made concerning the bear attack.
If you live where the bears are, expect to have your children eaten too randy. If you want to kill bears, fine. Get out there with a knife and start killing bears. Anything else is cowardly. I dive with sharks, knowing I could be a nice morsel. I don’t kill them or try to remove them because they are doing what they do. The reason the homeowner didn’t dispatch it is probably because he didn’t have a gun readily available, thanks to NJ’s STUPID-A$$ gun laws. Yep…I can be a bleeding heart animal lover and want every gun .50 cal and lower available to law-abiding citizens too. Oh, and I love animals, they taste delicious; I just don’t think bears should be targets, for no other reason than they are pesky.
Sharks and bears, now that’s an intelligent comparison.
“If you live where the bears are, expect to have your children eaten too randy”…take your meds %&$^#$! This is NJ NOT WYOMING!!
And swimming with sharks and LIVING around bears where they can kill your livestock or your toddler is an asinine comparison.
“I just don’t think bears should be targets, for no other reason than they are pesky”..yup, that 300 pound bruin ripping your beloved dog in 2 sure is “Pesky”…you &*$%@*%.
But what do you expect from New Jersey, where Gov. Jon Corzine and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency,Lisa Jackson, which oversees the fish and game, are all bought and paid for by the likes of the Humane Society of the United States. They have fed lies and garbage to state leaders for so long, they believe it must be fact. Here’s what HSUS says in a press release that they refer to as fact.
Additional bear studies are essential to enhancing the state’s understanding of natural patterns of population fluctuation and density. Additionally, hunting proponents argue that a trophy hunt is needed to reduce human-bear conflicts, but there are no data to suggest that hunting has any effect on human/bear conflicts. Human population growth and media attention have been found to have a much greater influence on wildlife complaints and perceived conflicts. The only methods that have been shown to alleviate bear/human conflict are non-lethal techniques that teach bears to avoid humans.
They claim there is no data to support the notion that hunting has any effect on conflicts. This is the same group that is just as quick to claim that hunters are the ones who cause populations shortages of wildlife because we hunt them. I think that calling it having it both ways or talking out both sides of your mouth.
Fortunately for Mr. DiGuiseppi, he only lost a sheep. No one was injured. As one commenter to the story said:
I was under the impression that these NJ black bears understood to behave themselves, did’nt they read the rules. their not supposed to eat out of garbage cans or eat our pets.
Tom Remington
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