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Originally Posted by AmericanHunter1428
I have to correct you on this. You are so far from the truth it's not even funny. First off it's not just a sport, people hunt for food as well. I'm a bowhunter(the most challenging way to hunt by the way) and I'm not in my 40s, I'm only 23 and I don't have a beer belly. There are 12 year old girls out there that hunt. I've even seen this myself. I've also seen people hunt lion, cougars, buffalo, and even elephants with bows as well. The sport of hunting is very important to the wildlife and animal conservation. Here in massachusetts they are over-populating there are alot of them dying of starvation because there is not enough vegatation out there for them. Not to mention hunters bring 200 million dollars to the wildlife every year to the U.S and Africa. I just think you should get all the facts before you go and judge the whole sport.
Oh, and deer are not an animal that does no one any harm. Believe it or not, deer are very territorial animals and they kill people every year and destroy alot of farmers crops. Also, no offense but, judging by the way you talk about hunting, I dought very much that you have ever accually done it a few times. I think you only said that just to add to your defense of your argument.
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I have seen a lot on Discovery Channel, Animal Planet etc, that most Americans do not understand that they should stay on the roads and paths. They just walk were they want, annoying the wildlife and dropping litter everywere. If they took more care there is no animal to blame, messing with lynxes, cougars etc. is simply
asking for trouble. And male deers can be a nuissance, I know that, but only if they see you as a threat. So just stay out of their territory, just like they stay out of our's.
And hunting elephants with bows is not a good example, since ivory-hunters in Africa usually use shotguns. A bow, not even a crossbow or English longbow can penetrate the elephant's body lethally in a few shots. And a lion is a protected animal.
Oh and dying of starvation is only natural, the corpses will be food for other lifeforms. Do not be such a fool, the idea of humans being "God's sheepdogs" is very oldfashioned and so far from the truth that even priests stopped believing in it. Ever heard from Charles Darwin, and things like "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest"?
And a lot of hunters (not all though) actually are like Gazz putted it. At least here in Europe, our idea of how the avarage hunter looks like, is like that.