[Farnsworth]

If it was all legal, then detractors need to STFU

[DuncanWaring]

[Carry_Okie]

In 2001 Botswana banned sport hunting for lions. In 2002 "animal-control" officers in Botswana killed more lions (because of cattle and human depredations) than sport hunters had killed the year before —

The same thing happened in California when hunting mountain lions was banned in a ballot Proposition 117 supported by only four urban counties.

[Carry_Okie]

In California, where animal rightists got cougar hunting banned in 1990, government "animal-control officers"(supported by hunter license fees) have killed more "problem" cougars than hunters themselves ever killed when they were allowed to hunt. And this was apparently fine with the same greenies who lobbied to end cougar hunting.

LOL, next paragraph.

[MUDDOG]

[DirtyPigpen]

I proclaim the hunter lady Not Guilty.

[TexasCajun]

Tuesday's FR Thread:

Big game backlash: Protests against celebrity hunter Melissa Bachman mount

[DJ MacWoW]

Just 11% To Go And The Last Freepathon Of The Year
Is Over!

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[bill1952]

Have to say it, but hunting satisfies an basic human need to hunt and kill.
Deny it all you want but it is part of the human condition without which we would all perish from this earth as we almost did when we were hunted and killed...

Its nothing to be ashamed of.

[MeganC]

Liberals oppose hunting by anyone who enjoys hunting. So long as you do it as part of your government job as a game warden they don’t care...assuming the game warden hates their job.

[steelhead_trout]

I’m sure this was legal. But was the lion preying on livestock? Was it stalking humans or frequenting human settlements? Was it so seriously ill (e.g. injuries, rabies) that it had to be destroyed. Was Melissa going to eat the lion? If none of the above, then what was the point in shooting it?

[Born to Conserve]

Wild animals are good no matter what, and anyone killing them is evil no matter what.

My area has been without (non human) dangerous predators for a couple hundred years, but now we have coyote. People’s pets are disappearing, and I see and hear of coyote strolling around with no fear of people. A toddler is going to get killed, then there will be a change. It used to be there was a culture of farmers and “poachers” that took out these problem animals, modifying their collective behavior by eliminating the more aggressive ones. There are no more farmers, and poaching is right up their with terrorism. Sorry for the family of the inevitable toddler victim, but there is nothing I can do to help these people.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember when the alphabet networks all had hunting and fishing shows on them back in the 1950s and ‘60s.

Then, in the 1970s,the anti-hunting-anti-gun groups started to scream.

[gundog]

Watusi Roeo, by Guadalcanal Diary You Tube

[Spktyr]

If it is Mountain Lions vs. Californians.... I’m rooting for the mountain lions.