Yes, it's not politically correct for a chronically ill girl to want to go hunting. Phooey, I say. We have too many bears; just ask anybody with a suburban house lot in New Jersey!
He's not an Aldo Leopold, but John McPhee (if you like the outdoors and don't know him, he's worthwhile) wrote an interesting essay on New Jersey bears back in the 1980s. An explosion in the making way back then.