My totally personal opinion guess.
They guy was a psychopath - the “He liked to kill small animals” did it for me.
“They guy was a psychopath - the “He liked to kill small animals” did it for me.”
As a child (say 3rd grade?) we would hunt chipmunks at our cabin for “sport”. Birds were not allowed. I remember getting all mad at my buddy that shot a frog once. Not sure why I thought shooting a frog was wrong, but chipmunks were okay. Heck, if we had shot the frog and eaten it it would be okay by me now.
I can’t imagine shooting a chipmunk now, or letting my kids shoot one. We got a nickle a piece from the old guy next store. In hindsight, I’m guessing he had a bird-feeder for the birds, but the chipmunks ate the seed instead.
Off topic I guess - but I still haven’t become a whacked out killer. However, I have heard of some terrible stuff done by kids to animals. (I knew a kid from Vietnam years ago that said they would catch a rat, dump gas on it, light it on fire and then watch the hillarity - sicko.)