Excellent post, thank you for taking the time to do this.
I missed the part about the Hmong and their diaspora from Vietnam.
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I hope your thread sticks around until this holiday is over. I'm afraid not too many freepers will see it.
Well done.
Excellent post!
Thank you for posting this excellently written background.
Your report is one of the best ever published here; and thank you.
Thanks for the post.
Thanks. If venison steaks became popular throughout the US, your herds would dwindle quickly. Probably, too quickly.
Wow! Excellent! Thanks for posting this - it certainly corresponds with my recollection also, growing up and living nearby. And...I also worked for DNR in the 70's. Small world, eh?
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That is an excellent background article. It is much the same here in Pennsylvania. Schools will be closed on Monday, the first day of deer season. Families are already traveling up to their cabins for several days of comradeship and enjoyment of Penn's Woods.
Our hunters are well-trained from youth and are generally very careful and considerate.
It is the "visitors" from other states who sometimes create problems.
The last murder I can recall during deer season was when a man trespassed on a judge's property. When the judge asked him to leave, the "hunter" shot him dead in cold blood. That was about 25 years ago.
The mainstream media trying to spin this Wisconsin massacre as some sort of racial incident is spurious, to say the least.
This story was a real media letdown!
If all the participants were white, it would have been small anti-gun story.
If the shooter was black and the victims was white, it wouldn't have been a story.
If the shooter was white and the victims were black, this would have pre-empted the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade, and so on for the next 2 weeks.
But the shooter was asian( an immigrant?) and the vics were white so the media has a problem...it can't condemn third world immigrants, and we can't express sympathy for white male hunters, murdered though they surely were...thus the story must fade.
IMHO, the morals of the story are (1) Stop Immigration (2)the media is full of BS
thank you MT for taking the time to write this. Good job.
Thank you for your personnel background of the traditions of this part of our country and educating me about this unfortunate tragedy.
I am not surprised that no one shot back at this assailant. The event is so rare as to be far outside normal experience. No one shoots another person deliberately in deer season!
I suspect that even those who were shot did not realize that they had been shot deliberately for some time.
I never understood why no one fired back. Thanks to you, I know how kind and good those who were shot must have been.
Well said, marktwain, a good backgrounder, and thank you. I live a bit more than 20 miles from the murder scene. Just about everyone around here knew or knew of the victims and their families. Long after this tragedy fades from the headlines, the grief and disbelief here will remain.
My memories align with yours. In years gone by (before hunters were required to wear orange), there were invariably a number of deaths due to hunting accidents. But I cannot remember even one homicide.
Great post.
I heard on Fox that he might have started to hunt humans. Very sad to say the least .
I don't consider it a 'vanity' at all. Your knowledge is first-hand and highly relevant (as well as being very well written). Thanks.
Much of what you've written reminds my of my own corner of Pennsylvania.