How do you feel about hunting?

Question

What's so exciting about slaughtering defenseless animals? Does it make you a better person if you put a bullet in the side or head of a harmless, defenseless deer or rabbit? Do you tell your kids it's ok to shoot poor beasts FOR THE FUN OF IT?

Thinning out numbers" is a stupid and lame excuse. Nature always finds the way to deal with numbers.

Answer 1

It gets worse...I saw a story on the news the other day about a way to hunt over the internet. I guess it was set up so that those who are house bound or otherwise disabled could participate in this "sport." So, you can go to some website, pay your money, and somehow log onto a camera which is pointed towards the wilderness and you can push a button and fire at an animal when you spot one. I know it sounds too strange to be true, but it is a real thing. Isn't that just awful??
Oh, and to the above poster...I think that the "survival" excuse is about 500 years too old. I have about 5 grocery stores within a 10 mile radius of my house. I'm pretty sure I don't need to go and wrestle down an animal on my front lawn in order to eat.

Answer 2

I am a female that owns many rifles, and I am an avid animal lover. If a hunter says he only likes the feel of the gun, go target shooting. I have been doing that since I was 16 and I love it. I personally do not agree with sport hunting. To kill an animal and have a head hanging over the mantle is supposed to be some sick twisted show of pride. You took somethings life away that showed you no harm at all. Overpopulation is a croc of crap. We are the ones that are building new homes that force more animals and wildlife into our backyard, so why are they being punished for it?

On the flip side, do you like fishing? A fish is not as cuddly looking as a deer or bird, but more people are open to fishing than hunting, why is that?

If people would hunt for survival that would be a different story. Most people I know that hunt do in fact eat what they kill. Do I agree with it? No. But until you can personally influence the government, or until deer are on the verge of becoming extinct, not one hunter or government official will listen to the cries of people that care.

Answer 3

People have hunted since the beginning of time! It is kind of the natural order of things. I don't' hunt and really don't care to, but I do not think there is anything wrong with it. Most people today do not hunt out of necessity. It has become more of a sport. Which I'm not really sure what the fun of killing a poor defenseless animal is, but none the less I still believe it is the natural order of things.

Answer 4

It's a stupid and destructive creature that tastes good. And it is funner getting together with friends and spending time out in the woods than it would be picking it up at the grocery store.

It has nothing to do with being a better person, and people who don't hunt are not better either, despite their overblown emotional rhetoric.

Hunting IS fun. It is the whole of the activity that is fun. Killing the animal is just part of it. It is part of the natural cycle of life. Like in the Lion King. Kids understand it, why can't you?

Answer 5

In my opinion, the only time an animal's life should be taken is if each and every part of that animal can be utilized in serving a purpose cooperative with survival an in the interest of the highest good for ALL life everywhere. Unfortunately, this method has become, overall, obsolete and to the best of my knowledge, only indigenous tribes still employ the spirit of taking only what is needed and leaving the Earth in a state of minimal disruption by their presence.
The way some individuals hunt this day in age saddens me on many levels.

Answer 6

Another thing stupid and lame about the "thinning out the numbers" excuse. Who is the biggest group overpopulating the planet? HUMANS. And there would be room for the animals if HUMANS didn't keep cutting down the forests and destroying the habitats they live in.

Also - look at the overpopulated prison population in the US - how about "thinning out their numbers"?

But, I guess some people *think* it makes them a "man" to shoot a defenseless animal.

Answer 7

Hunting is boring. I could never force myself to get up at the ***-crack of dawn in the late fall and winter to freeze my butt off waiting for a deer that more than likely would never show up. That's what I think about it.

I'm thankful to live in a society where you are able to buy the meat in the store without having it resemble the animal it came from.

I used to be a vegetarian. Not anymore. I actually gained weight.

Being vegetarian is definitely more efficient and makes more sense, but the taste just doesn't measure up.

Answer 8

I have more respect for people who hunt their own food than people who buy prepackaged meat in the supermarket. At least hunters do their own dirty work, and most eat what they kill. Those animals at least got a free life and did not live a miserable life in a pen, given hormones and antibiotics, and allowed limited movement. I absolutely respect and support hunting by responsible consumers. And I am an animal lover- I can't even kill a mosquito that is feeding off of me, but you have to use common sense.

Hunting just for sport should be illegal- there is nothing sporting about shooting a trapped animal. Those people are serial killers in the making.

Answer 9

it is a sport the same as any other sport, why pay millions to some guy to shoot a round ball through a round hoop? Cause we enjoy it. I used to hunt, it was fun I enjoyed being in the woods with friends (I come from a culture where guys don't go for long walks togather). I never got off on the killing, I enjoyed the pleasure of making a difficult shot on the move, I never enjoyed the eating of wild game (but I cleaned it and let my friends have it). All in all it is just another way to pass the time.

Answer 10

Yes, nature found a way to handle over population, it"s called starvation/disease.
Why don't you just try sneaking up on a deer sometime,it is not easy .
The American Indian killed game to live,I eat what I kill.
Or do you shop only in the veggie aisle?