"Stephen Harding" wrote in message
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I think much of it has to do with the political thinking of
this area. Hunters are very bad (their trucks commonly have
sugar poured into gas tanks during deer season), as of course
guns (did you know a gun is "an instrument of violence"?).

Of course they are, they're designed to kill with. Doesn't mean they're
*bad*, but a firearm is primarily designed to blow holes in targets, and
those targets may be cute fluffy living creatures just as easily as
cardboard cutouts or metallic silhouettes.

There is the promotion of the idea that animals are our friends
and only humans are the real aggressive creatures. I think the
"gentle Bambi" side of wildlife is emphasized at the expense of
reality.

Ouch. Without hunting or some other means of culling, Bambi is going to
breed like mad, eat the pristine wilderness into a barren waste, and then
starve en masse (of course all that will probably be the fault of hunters,
the government, large corporations and/or Saddam Hussein rather than the
sentimental well-meaning treehuggers).

Okay, over-hunting is also very bad, as the passenger pigeon would tell you,
but while Nature usually works out a balance it can be quite messy for a few
generations while the scales swing.

--
Paul J. Adam