“and now rattle snakes that don’t rattle”
Rattlers rattle when they feel threatened just because you walk up on one that’s not rattling doesn’t mean they don’t rattle.
Let’s look at your premises, which I shall suggest are in need of revision.
1. Whether a predator is solitary, as a cougar or a social predator as are wolves and Urban Ferals, makes no difference to the prey.
2. As a quick review of the attacks would have shown, many predators kill by incapacating their prey and eating it alive, one bite at a time.
3. Your state animal is known for that, as are the wolves you seem more tolerant of than those who are forced by the “civilized” Urban Predators otherwise known as enviro-nutters and their AgencyPerson Fellow Travelers, all busily trough feeding at taxpayer expense.
4. Have you considered that forcing an American to quarter dangerous beasts on his land, or not shoot them before they attack him solely because you ‘like’ them, is placing your esthetic wishes above his property rights?
5. Far worse, forcing your aesthetic wishes upon those who disagree also imposes upon the unwilling a threat of great bodily harm, or a most grizzly(pun intended) death?
6. Which Constitutional Convention gave you such authority?
7. Before the rise of enviro-communism, to use its’ correct name, those who wanted large bodied predators bought land and kept such dangerous predators at their own expense.
8. Then, only the insane would claim they had the right to force such animals on others.
9. Now, the insane have taken over the nation.
10. The above points would appear to make a case for constitutional and societal devolution.
Are the “aesthetics” of large bodied predator reintroduction justifiable? Or is it merely communism disguised as environmentalism. Feel used, yet?
May I leave you with four quotes?
“The establishment of an American Soviet government will require the confiscation of large landed estates in both town and country, and the entirety of lakes, forests, rivers and mineral deposits”. William Z. Foster, National Chairman, Communist Party USA, 1932.
“The future of communism in America will be in the environmental movement.” Gus Hall, National Chairman, Communist Party USA.
“We reject the idea of private property” Peter Berle, President of National Audubon Society.
“Let’s be unreasonable. Let’s take it all.” Brock Evans, VP of National Audubon Society when Berle was president of National Audubon.