Don't Teach Your Kids To Kill !!

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Wow, so that guy has obviously got some issues. I don't know how many times I have gone out in the woods just to be in the woods. Venison supports my mom and dad, my brothers and sisters just as I am sure it supports most people on heres families to. Its people like him that get this world all fired up

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I submitted this as a rebuttle to the article. Got an email back from them today. I'm not sure if they are going to run it, so her it is.

I read your article on teaching kids to kill. I thought it was very well written and thought out. However it was very misinformed in its message. Because of the hunting practices of today we actually have more game in or wilderness than we did when the "white man" settled this land of ours. Yes in an unregulated world where the norm was killing and letting animals lay many species were completely or almost completely wiped out. Do you even know why those animals were wiped out? Not that it's a good reason, because it's not. They were wiped out on purpose so that the native Americans would be starved out and have to leave the Midwest so the "good white folk" could move in.

Today hunters spend more money protecting the environment and creating habitat than all other groups combined. Through the taxes that we hunters asked for in our hunting licenses, fees, hunter education classes we have bought millions of acres of forest land that would have been otherwise been clear cut or developed for industry. Hunters also buy up thousands of square miles of land a year for habitat reclamation which takes previously settled land and puts it back the way God made it. While organizations like Peta are lobbying for animal rights, spending money on lawyers while on the side euthanizing animals and trying to cover it up, hunters are actually doing physical labor and spending their own money to help the environment.

What does hunting do to the animal population? The predator population as well as wild game population had been decimated from the Wild West era to the time of Teddy Roosevelt. When regulations were put in place to help get game animal populations up, it worked. But with the influx of settlers into the wilderness there was a need to be safe, so predator populations were still being controlled. (whether legal or illegal) Because we have a low predator population, game animal population must be controlled or it will run rampant. Look at urban deer population problems. In areas where hunting is allowed the populations are being controlled, while in areas where hunters aren't allowed animal populations are out of control. This causes auto accidents, disease , starvation and is detrimental on the environment.

I assume you don't want bears, mountain lions and wolves in you neighbor hood "controlling" the deer population since they would also be controlling the dog, cat and small children population too, so there are few viable solutions. There have been attempts to sterilize game animals that costs up to $4000 per animal and are affective only 35-50% at a time. You could poison them all, it's a lot cheaper, but that would be inhumane even to a hunters standards. You could relocated them, but they are migratory in nature and new ones would fill the void within weeks. Or you could allow hunting in the area.

If you haven't already figured it out, I do hunt. I have taken my 11 year old daughter with me, and will take my son as soon as I think he is ready. Hunting is a way of life for many people. Yes I do eat what I kill. Yes there are irresponsible idiots out there who kill animals for fun and leave them to die. I don't call them hunters, I call them idiots, poachers, criminals like you probably do. As for the 10 year old boy in your article. It sounds to me like if the animal were injured that his dad was trying to "put it down" or out of it's misery. I only wish he had made a better shot on it so the animal would not have suffered. A true hunter knows what they are doing is taking the life of one of God's gifts to us to provide for ourselves and our families. We cherish that life and respect it enough to take it in a way that the animal suffers as very little as possible.

Controlling the animal population through hunting is much like disciplining a child. I assume that with your music degree and the story of a 10 year old that you are a music teacher. So am I. I've been teaching band for 16 years. If you are a good teacher you know that a good classroom must be controlled. Much of the time if you control your class well it's fun and much is learned. Sometimes you must do something unpleasant to maintain your control. If we do not control our class it will be unproductive and nothing good will come of it. The game animal population is much the same. We can go out and commune with nature and enjoy what God has created for us, but if we do not control it, it would be a disaster.

Like it or not, Hunters provide an important link in our fragile ecosystem. Without them there would be unbridled chaos. I don't think you are a bad person, and I respect your opionion, I just don't think it is very well iformed.

John F

Perryville, AR

hunter and teacher

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