Dear Editor,
A much more fitting title for Noah Comet’s editorial, “If you love deer, you must go hunting” would have been, “If you love driving blindly, pedal to the metal, you must shoot a deer before you hit one with your precious car.”
Indeed, the gist of the piece seemed to be: ‘Our monstrous automobiles are here to stay, so everything else best get out of the way–before we run them over. Come to think if it, as much as hunting is costly and barbaric, we might as well just shoot them first. We’ll say we’re doing them a favor.’
Nowhere does the editorial ask us to drive more defensively or dare to ask drivers to slow the heck down, before someone (or something, if you prefer) ends up dead.
But ironically and as much as I hate to admit it, I found myself agreeing with an occasional line. For instance, the notion that ‘there are too many deer’ is, as Mr. Comet rightly points out, a “ludicrous argument.” His line that, “Deer haven’t overpopulated; we have” says it all.
Jim Robertson
President, Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting
Exposing the Big Game 
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I sure wish the Fudds would come up some new baloney. You would think the wildlife agencies would start giving them new stupid things to say. They are not entertaining anymore.
Great answer! I’m glad Comet can at least see that the human species is overpopulated. And if we didn’t push the deer (and how many other wild lives) out of their habitat, they wouldn’t be left dying by the side of our freeways trying to find space and food. Comet apparently is more concerned about the collisions on cars and people than on the helpless deer.
Comet’s main suggestion is not new. Ever since the Europeans came to this country, others have had to get out of our way. Settlers decimated Native American tribes, as well as forests and wildlife up and down the East Coast to make way for farms, domestic animals, and more Europeans. On the plains and farther west, tribes were herded onto reservations as bison, bears, wolves, cougars, and multiple “trash” animals were hunted to near extinction to make room for massive cattle ranches, towns, and railroads, in a way the precursors of our freeways.
So the human juggernaut is here to stay and grow, as are the numbers of our vehicles. As usual, the human-created problems are to be solved at the expense of those who had no part in creating them.