Letter, 1/7: Repeal hunting season
I was saddened and sickened to read the article “Two mountain lions killed, ending first season” (Jan. 4) concerning the murder of two mountain lions in Nebraska by individuals selected by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission through a lottery and auction.
All Nebraska citizens who honor life and appreciate the beauty and majesty of nature that includes the animals that share our environment must join Sen. Chambers in his bid to repeal the ability of Game and Parks to set hunting seasons on cougars. I urge people to contact their senator and urge them to support Sen. Chambers’ effort and do everything possible to hinder the Game and Parks Commission until this is repealed.
Game and Parks officials stated their objective for allowing cougar hunting in the Pine Ridge is to provide hunters with opportunities while allowing a slight to moderate reduction in the mountain lion population. Guess what? It’s also legal for the unlimited murdering of cougars roaming through the Prairie Unit, which covers about 85 percent of Nebraska.
After reading how the first two animals were murdered, I shudder at what other “opportunities’” Game and Parks will come up with: the use of high explosives, automated weapons, stealth drones, mortars and the assistance of the NSA to target and murder these beautiful animals?
There is no place in our modern society for such barbaric and inhumane treatment of such beautiful animals. The magnificence of such animals is better visualized with a live animal rather than a rug on someone’s floor.
I beg people to support the repeal of this horrific activity. This is not hunting; there is no “sport” involved but the extermination of one of God’s most beautiful creatures.
Robert D. Randall, Lincoln
Exposing the Big Game 
The people are just now waking up, hopefully not too late.