In highly populated districts the firearms for hunting deer are limited to shotguns with either buckshot of slugs, both of which are very limited in range, especially the buckshot. Archery is another way to limit damage to things other than the deer being hunted. Making excuses for not allowing hunting is just BS. The reason you have so many is because not enough people hunt them.
They're freezers are bursting with venison. If the Salvadorans around here had freezers, they'd be filling them too.
These things breed like bunnies and hide out behind homes. We found 7 of them trimming my lawn the other day (drought's hard on 'em).
What's going on is that people plant lawns, plant bushes, plant bulbs, plant all manner of good things for deer to eat and fail to instal 12 ft high fences around it. Deer can outbreed the ability of their predators to kill them ~ and will outbreed their range.
Only a man/wolf combo double-team has a hope of driving down this surplus.
I live in a town in the CO Rockies with a serious elk over-population problem. It’s not possible to use shotguns or bows to hunt them. The elk problem has been an issue of public debate for about 30 years. FWIW wolves won’t work either.
The entire southern half of Michigan is "shotgun only" for deer hunting.....