Posted on 02/20/2012 8:01:49 AM PST by SmithL
The divide between those who live in rural areas and those from cities ruptured wide this past weekend across America in a debate over a provocative photo of California Fish and Game Commission President Dan Richards and a huge mountain lion he shot legally after an 8-hour hunt in Idaho.
Some comments on Facebook suggest that Richards should be the one hunted and shot, that he should be jailed, that is unethical to shoot anything you do not eat, and hunting of any kind is barbaric.
Most from rural backgrounds would see nothing wrong with the photo. Mountain lions are predators that kill lots of deer and other animals, including house pets and farm animals, and fewer of them means more of just about everything else. Same with coyotes. Since the hunt occurred in Idaho, where mountain lion hunting is legal, there was nothing illegal about anything Richards did.
The photo first appeared in Western Outdoor News at http://www.wonews.com/Blog.aspx?id=1646 as an innocuous sidebar to a column post by Paul Lebowitz, 2010 California Outdoor Writer of the Year. The Humane Society of the United States, an anti-hunting organization, then copied and circulated the photo around the country.
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Here's a list of sins taken from the Bible: http://www.wogim.org/sinlist.htm Search on pride/proud/vain. You might take special note of sin #648: willingly ignorant of God's Word.
Mules disagree with liberal city dwelling jackasses.
http://www.yellowstonehorses.com/mule_cougar1.jpg
“I want to hunt and shoot liberals, then pose like this guy.”
Me too.
I hope you’re as series as I am.
I read an interview that was done by Ted Nugent a while back in which he stated that he ate everything he killed
He also stated that he had killed his first and last porcupine ... said it tasted like a soggy creosote post.
Your Bible may list over 600 but mine lists 10.
Yours came from a bunch of men making stuff up as they went along. Mine came from God himself.
Yep. A buddy of mine owns some rather large housecats. One was sitting in his lap on the back porch, snoozing peacefully.
He then made the comment that he’s all cute and fuzzy now, but if we were the size of a chipmunk, he’d have eaten both of us long ago...
Some people need to be eaten
City people should STFU! If they are so plentiful that they are a problem out here then it won’t be long until their own kids start being hunted on the playground/park by mountain lions too.
By your standard, homosexuality isn't a sin either.
By your standard, homosexuality isn't a sin either.
Smoked cat is not bad...
I read at one point that in the older days, you weren't supposed to kill porcupines, because they were to be preserved as the last-resort meal of anybody lost and hungry in the woods. They are sufficiently slow moving that they can be killed by somebody with a thrown rock.
You are 100% right...that house cat (and I love cats) at 200 pounds would find you a tasty snack...no thick hide and fur to tear off to get to the mean....we are tenderized already....
Put down that Puma you heathen, you’re hugging the very life right out of it. Go hug a tree instead.
Is he going to eat er uhm cat yeah cat tonight?.
You obviously know nothing about hunting. It has very little to do with vanity.
The pictures maybe, not the hunt itself.
That’s the wrong kind of cougar ...
Why doesn’t he just go to the supermarket to get his meat? Afterall that is where they make it...
(Is a /s really required?)
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