Ignorant Anti-Hunters Freak Out Over Woman Who Legally Killed a Lion

Plan9Misfit said:

There's a significant difference. But hey, don't let technology get in the way. And considering no animal uses any weapons when it hunts other than its own physical ability, why shift the degree of advantage? That's all I'm asking. Regardless of the excuses that hunters use to justify the use of guns in a hunt, there aren't any. Use a bow and arrow.

That's the problem with hunters. They've convinced themselves that anything they do is in the right and have no solution for anyone who challenges them. I never said that hunting should be banned. I said that it's a necessary evil, but hunters should be relegated to less advantageous means of hunting. This way, if they miss, the animal has a reasonable opportunity to either escape or defend itself. In my opinion, if we have the right to hunt and kill the animal, then it's equally acceptable for the animal to hunt and kill the person.

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Plan9Misfit said:

"In my opinion, if we have the right to hunt and kill the animal, then it's equally acceptable for the animal to hunt and kill the person"

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Plan9Misfit said:

Am I? No. That's one of the reasons why I feel that hunting is a necessary evil. However, we don't hunt our food anymore. We farm it, raise it, and slaughter it. That's a slight difference than hunting big game. We don't eat that kind of meat. I have yet to enter a restaurant which advertises its faire as "freshly hunted <insert animal> meat".

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Plan9Misfit said:

Am I? No. That's one of the reasons why I feel that hunting is a necessary evil. However, we don't hunt our food anymore. We farm it, raise it, and slaughter it. That's a slight difference than hunting big game. We don't eat that kind of meat. I have yet to enter a restaurant which advertises its faire as "freshly hunted <insert animal> meat".

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junk said:

These types of comments always make me laugh. Obviously made by someone who has never hunted or been around hunting in their entire life.

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Plan9Misfit said:

There's a significant difference. But hey, don't let technology get in the way. And considering no animal uses any weapons when it hunts other than its own physical ability, why shift the degree of advantage? That's all I'm asking. Regardless of the excuses that hunters use to justify the use of guns in a hunt, there aren't any. Use a bow and arrow.

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That's the problem with hunters. They've convinced themselves that anything they do is in the right and have no solution for anyone who challenges them. I never said that hunting should be banned. I said that it's a necessary evil, but hunters should be relegated to less advantageous means of hunting. This way, if they miss, the animal has a reasonable opportunity to either escape or defend itself. In my opinion, if we have the right to hunt and kill the animal, then it's equally acceptable for the animal to hunt and kill the person.

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junk said:

You don't be large portions of the country still do. I know many families that fill their freezer from hunting and use that as their main source of food.

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Kbrown said:

Srsly dude, it's just like the sniper rifle in Call of Duty.

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Iamtdg said:

Yep. Tons of people around here fill their freezes with annual and bi-annual hunts.

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Plan9Misfit said:

There's a significant difference. But hey, don't let technology get in the way. And considering no animal uses any weapons when it hunts other than its own physical ability, why shift the degree of advantage? That's all I'm asking. Regardless of the excuses that hunters use to justify the use of guns in a hunt, there aren't any. Use a bow and arrow.

That's the problem with hunters. They've convinced themselves that anything they do is in the right and have no solution for anyone who challenges them. I never said that hunting should be banned. I said that it's a necessary evil, but hunters should be relegated to less advantageous means of hunting. This way, if they miss, the animal has a reasonable opportunity to either escape or defend itself. In my opinion, if we have the right to hunt and kill the animal, then it's equally acceptable for the animal to hunt and kill the person.

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L.T. Fan said:

Hunting is big in about every state and I have no problem with it. Exclusive Trophy stuff is another matter. As an aside, the Hunter population in this country is larger than the largest armies in the world. For that alone I support hunting.

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Plan9Misfit said:

Again, if people want to hint with a bow and arrow, feel free. And I'm fine with them eating the meat. Someone should. Just don't use a gun.

If we've evolved so much to the point where we can out-think an animal, then why hunt it to begin with? Wouldn't farming them and killing them in a controlled environment prove our intellectual superiority over hunting them?

So, laughing at me for disagreeing with hunting with a gun only shows how ignorant you guys are because you feel that your opinions are superior to someone else's without having anything to qualify them. I suggest keeping a more level playing field, and you laugh. Nice job, idiots.

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Iamtdg said:

Love ya, Plan9, but (pardon the pun), you are way off target here.

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Plan9Misfit said:

Think of the environment where I live, Iamtdg. We don't hunt here. There is nothing to hunt and there is no point in hunting. I see no purpose for hunting in general for anything other than food (which you can buy) or for population control (which is not an issue in a metropolitan city). So if one hunts, don't make it out to be a "competitive" thing, because it isn't. Not with a gun. I don't give a shit what excuses a person uses, I'm not buying it.

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Kbrown said:

Actually, the people in this thread have "qualified" how hunting with a gun is just as sporting as hunting with a bow and how hunting is much more humane than the way you get your meat.

You have just repeated that bow hunting is the only fair way after admitting that you know nothing about the subject, having been a city kid.

A half-assed rhetorical critique followed by calling the other side idiots doesn't make for a successful argument.

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Plan9Misfit said:

In my opinion, if we have the right to hunt and kill the animal, then it's equally acceptable for the animal to hunt and kill the person.

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Plan9Misfit said:

Am I? No. That's one of the reasons why I feel that hunting is a necessary evil. However, we don't hunt our food anymore. We farm it, raise it, and slaughter it. That's a slight difference than hunting big game. We don't eat that kind of meat. I have yet to enter a restaurant which advertises its faire as "freshly hunted <insert animal> meat".

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Iamtdg said:

Because we can, and if they could they would do the same. I love the high and mighty people that think that a lion wouldn't pull out a rifle and shoot a deer if they could.



The animal has every right to do so. If it's smart enough to hunt down a man and kill him, he has won the match. Too bad we are much smarter than them.

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