Comments on: More Anti-Hunting Lies

By: Tim4Trout

Tim4Trout — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:52:23 +0000

To emphasize the extent of Miele's delusion, here is one from a Louisiana paper from earlier this year where he suggest that hunters should be required to pass a psychological examination before being given a license to hunt because someone somewhere happened to commit murder with a hunting rifle. Meile's Louisiana Rant

By: G Mock

G Mock — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:28:57 +0000

Well put George.

By: George

George — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:32:02 +0000

There are exceptions but our hunting base is shrinking along with many of the values we were taught as truths.

But the truth is, it is our friends on the left who have been attacking our most fundamental rights and freedoms for decades; forcing their will on the rest of us through unelected judges, the media and most effectively, our education system. Not only are our children subjected to textbook screeds on the evils of Western Civilization, but our college campuses, once the home of independent thought, have become dreary domiciles of forced conformity which oddly claim to champion the goal of ‘diversity’.

By: Reed

Reed — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:09:43 +0000

Tom,

I work with a lot of great youth. I think the lack of interest in outdoor blood sports like hunting and fishing among young people today is the result of many factors – none of which have to do with the killing of animals.

1/ Modern teens are unaccustomed to acting by themselves; they work, play, and converse in groups – isolation is anathema, some actually fear it. (There are many positive aspects to this group dynamic, but this is one negative.)
2/ Loss of easy access to hunting. When we were pups, you could ride your bike to an area to hunt or trap. Today most live in cities or suburbs which do not permit hunting. Running a small trapline, as I did when young, is illegal in most locales.
3/ Disassociation from a semi-wild/wild environment. Many youth assume “nature” is the city park.

The above are, of course, generalizations – I hope tens of thousands of exceptions can be found.

By: Tom Remington

Tom Remington — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:06:06 +0000

You are absolutely right G Mock! There is a whole host of reasons why fewer people fish and hunt and I wouldn’t even deny that some of that reason might be because kids aren’t interested in killing animals. At issue is that this organization is laying claim that it is THE reason kids don’t want to hunt anymore.

By: G Mock

G Mock — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:58:07 +0000

When I was younger,I’m 52 now,myself and many others would tie our fishing rods to our bicycles and sometimes ride miles to the fishing hole.Now we have computers.Less younger people fish and hunt.Just my 2 cents.

By: Kristine Shreve

Kristine Shreve — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:35:00 +0000

It is a cheap trick. The problem is that most people won’t do the research necessary to discover its a cheap trick. That’s why PETA and groups of that ilk are so successful. People tend to take things at face value.