Although I generally don't hunt, I am far from an anti hunter.
I have no problem with hunters at all. I grew up with them, ate game at their tables, and even went afield with my friends on more than one occassion.
But when I read things like this:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9302 I become absolutely LIVID.
I realize that this isn't necessarilly representative of all hunters, but the sad truth is that it represents the attitudes of too durned many of them.
The belief that they'll never go after your duck gun or boltie deer rifle is a dangerous self deception. Look @ Europe, UK, Australia, for pete's sake!
I'm on record as saying the following:
(From
http://geekwitha45.blogspot.com/2003_12_21_geekwitha45_archive.html#107206495184679322)
You duck hunters are gonna be the death of us all.
If you own a duck gun or a deer rifle, and see nothing wrong with the "Assault Weapons Ban", I remind you that the Second Amendment is of sober and serious purpose that is not about your trivial right to entertain yourself with sports shooting.
When they come for your duck gun, my battle rifle and I won't be there to help you, because at that point, I either won't have a battle rifle, or it's shards will have been buried with me. And if that came to pass because you were sitting on your ???, you won't deserve any help either.
And I stand by it.
I, and many, many others who will own "politically incorrect" rifles have INTENTIONALLY placed ourselves directly in the line of metaphorical, and perhaps someday, ACTUAL fire between the hunters and the gun grabbing bigots, because to us, deer don't matter, people's Rights do.
They'll get to your duck gun only after they've gone through us and our battle rifles.
A little bit of help in the voting booth, so it won't come to anything drastic, and an occassional "thank you" from hunters instead of being villified in rants like that Dale Bowman piece of crap are in order.