Welcome Anti-hunters (No Nimrods Allowed)

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I see by the comments coming in lately that there are a lot of new faces showing up here on this blog. I’d like to extend you all a warm welcome. I say, I’d like to, but unfortunately I can’t—not all the new folks who’ve joined us lately are benevolent toward their fellow beings. What I can and will do is roll out the welcome mat for fellow wildlife watchers and animal rights advocates and welcome anti-hunters and non-hunters alike.

There are some people who are absolutely not welcome. I’m talking about the hunter and trapper trolls who somehow found themselves here and are now thinking: “What the hell is this site?”

Well, I’ll start by informing you what it is not: This is not a red-neck tavern with a “Welcome Hunters” sign out front. It’s not a message board or a chat room for people wanting to argue the supposed merits of animal exploitation or to defend the act of hunting or trapping in any way, shape or form. There are plenty of other sites available for that sort of thing.

For your sake, I urge you not to bother wasting your time posting your opinions in the comments section. This blog is moderated, and pro-hunting outbursts will not be tolerated or approved. Consider this fair warning—if you’re a hunter, sorry but your comments are going straight to the trash can. This is not a public forum for nimrods or other self-serving animal abusers to discuss the pros and cons of hunting.

Those who know right from wrong on this issue may appear a bit narrow minded, but the fact is there are no real pros to the matter, only cons, so there’s no point in wasting everyone’s time with your tired old PR drivel. We’ve heard all the rationalizations for killing so many times before. Any attempt to justify the murder of our fellow animals will hereby be jettisoned into cyberspace.

What you’ve stumbled upon is a haven for wildlife and wildlife advocates, a wildlife refuge of sorts, that’s posted “No Hunting,” as any true sanctuary should be. Just as a refuge is patrolled to keep hunters and poachers from harassing the wildlife, this blog site is monitored to keep hunter trolls from disturbing other people’s quiet enjoyment of the natural world. Those are the people whose unselfish comments are always welcome here.

25 thoughts on “Welcome Anti-hunters (No Nimrods Allowed)”

  1. I dunno, Jim. I think some of their arguments should be allowed and discussed. It might be informative. Kind of like “role play” practice as well: They say “this”, you reply with “these facts”… We need to learn to counter the debates appropriately and factually. Just a thought 🙂

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    • Thank for your thought, but I really have heard all their arguments before, ad nauseum. I don’t have the time or inclination in answering to them all, and they often don’t listen to reason anyway. But, like I said, there are plenty of other sites where back and forth discussion is allowed.

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      • makes me sick. there’s tons of hunting forums out there, but i guess they feel they’re preaching to the choir and have to argue. their responses are all scripted, almost as if there is a ‘For Dummies’ book just for debating non-hunters somewhere. what really pains me is that it’s bad enough they extincted our wild deer population (where i only see them on TV, in books, or in caged enclosures in rehab centers) but they have to add insult to injury by invading our forums, too.

      • Good for you, Jim! We need a lot more like advocates with balls enough to stand up to the animal exploiters and simply tell them to f*** off. We’ve heard all their self-serving drivel before.

    • Sorry Kam, but this kind of thinking is what perpetuates the animal killing machine. You cannot “reason” with these creatures. Debates and facts mean nothing to them. Most of them are too illiterate anyway to have a “discussion.” Unfortunately, this kind of “dialogue” with hunter/trappers/ranchers(often they are the same people), detracts and distracts animal people from the necessary ACTIVISM needed to stop this slaughter. The animals are running out of time. We do not have time to waste on useless banter with The Enemy.
      http://www.foranimals.org

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  3. They really have nothing to add, the hunters. They have their logical fallacies—“appeal to tradition”—“appeal to nature,” and that’s about it. Fact: Humans thrive without meat.
    their mai P.R claim is that they control populations, but humans are the most overpopulated mammal. Not a good record for “population control.”

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  4. I agree. After writing a living wildlife column every other Sunday, (Madravenspeak for the Capital Times online newspaper), and necessarily having to put up with hunter/trapper/hounders endless abuse, not only of wildlife, but of people who care about protecting wildlife, it is impossible to change the serial killer mindset. And they really do not bring anything new to the discussion.

    What is needed is constructive ORGANIZING methods rather than just feel good “we love wildlife” stuff. To that end, we need to get political. Painful as that is, the hunters and trappers own our legislatures and that is where they are setting their destruction and access to our public lands in law. It is a shame that they own our state agencies by funding them on killing licenses – our shame. We are the majority and we need to organize POLITICALLY to demand fair pay and fair say in out state agencies. That means state by state forming groups that LOBBY and alert citizens that their politicians belong to the NRA and the killers – even the supposedly “progressive” legislators will sell out our public lands, water systems and wildlife to get re-elected. Self interest rules.
    Follow the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. So until we get our money into it we have no say. We will just be dealing with symptoms, feeling good that we are compassionate and they are wrong as our wildlife are bludgeoned to death and killed for fun.

    We bring 10-40 times the revenue to state tax coffers as wildlife lovers – we need to direct that money TO POWER by ORGANIZING. Until then, this is all good education – but not changing anything.

    So have a look at the NRA web site where my state, Wisconsin, has become a MODEL for other states to follow (watch for the NRA to move it into your state) – where trapping has been expanded into all public lands and parks, including our so-called Stewardship lands ( a $1.67 billion dollar investment – and no protest from the public), and where trapping and hunting are newly taught throughout the school system FOR CREDIT, including at the local technical schools:

    http://www.nrahunterrights.org/Article.aspx?id=7054

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  5. >>What you’ve stumbled upon is a haven for wildlife and wildlife advocates, a wildlife refuge of sorts, that’s posted “No Hunting,” as any true sanctuary should be. <<

    PERFECT!!
    Actually, I do hear hunters' arguments on other forums. I've bantered back and forth many times over the years. Certainly, they have their opinions and are entitled to argue them. But it IS nice to kind of semi-relax in a "sanctuary" setting…and to spend a few moments with kindred spirits.

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  7. Well said… I like it here …. Nice people. No argues. Protection the wolves and the rest of the animals from the cruelty people! I am from California, of course watch over OR-7 so far he is doing well, seem made the home here… Stay avoid from the people and livestock .. Hope he find a mate soon. He is lone wolf. Stay safe, Journey! ( OR-7 )

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  11. Reblogged this on Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting Blog and commented:

    What you’ve stumbled upon is a haven for wildlife and wildlife advocates, a wildlife refuge of sorts, that’s posted “No Hunting,” as any true sanctuary should be. Just as a refuge is patrolled to keep hunters and poachers from harassing the wildlife, this blog site is monitored to keep hunter trolls from disturbing other people’s quiet enjoyment of the natural world. Those are the people whose unselfish comments are always welcome here.

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