As most of you know, this blog, as a rule, does not allow comments from self-proclaimed wildlife killers or their apologists, for the same reason a victim’s rights group might have a policy not to approve comments from abusers of vulnerable human victims. However, once in a while I post a hunter’s comment if it gives us particular insight into how their minds work.
According to the following comment to the post “High School Class Sponsoring Crow Hunting Tournament,” crows, coyotes, deer, hogs and ducks are “nothing,” but domesticated chickens may have some value…
“I think you are all making a big deal of out of nothing. I grew up in Sasakwa, I graduated from Sasakwa, and I hunt deer, ducks, and hogs. I don’t see why crows or coyotes are any different. My family lives in the country and we have animals. Coyotes will come and kill our chickens if we don’t keep an eye out for them.
“And we are not ruthless killers. Many kids and adults in Sasakwa have taken Hunter Safety Courses and hunt. Just because our community puts a hunting event together doesn’t mean there will be a big school shooting.”
Well, that’s what the shooters from Columbine would have said. Granted, not every bully becomes a serial killer, but the shooting of crows or coyotes for the sake of a sporting event is abusive in its own right. The contest-killing of sentient beings may not qualify as mass murder according to the laws of the day, but it’s certainly not “nothing.”
Text and Wildlife Photography ©Jim Robertson, except where noted
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With people like that in this world, I’m not optimistic about our future 😦
Me neither.
Nor am I.
Just to have such a disregard for living feeling creatures makes a person soulless. No empathy what so ever.
Glad they are getting some attention. Maybe they will begin to think about the stupidity of their actions.
Well said Jim.
Thanks
The fact that they are “just” coyotes, crows, etc doesn’t make it any less cruel or sadistic.
Not at all.
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To be honest, I am shocked that these killing frenzies have reared their ugly heads again. I have heard of them, but back in the days of the Dust Bowl and when this country was being
vandalizedsettled. I thought we had left those barbaric days behind us, but we must want to return to that time. It was bad enough then, but even more so today with habitat loss, less animal population and what, three times the human population of back then?More like SEVEN times the population. The human horde had scarcely reached one billion by the early 1900s. It has jumped from 6 billion to 7 billion just in less than 20 years! The only way an ever-growing population of Homo sapiens will survive itself is if people become more civil, not less.