If you want to know just post a poll on the question. I expect you'll find an overwhelming number of THR members would not ban hunting.
And the three jokers who would vote to ban hunting in a THR poll are just doing it to stir the pot.
FWIW, I've hunted prairie dogs, and would happily go again. After all, they're Mother Nature's own reactive targets.
I had no interest in hunting game animals until I had a taste of elk a few months ago. Since then, I've completed the required hunter safety course and submitted my check for an elk tag.
Yeah.
Elk meat tastes that good, and the idea of getting my meat from somewhere other than a little styrofoam container just seems like the sort of thing one should try, at least once.
As to the political side of it, I will happily speak up on behalf of the rights of hunters. Gun issues aside, without them, many of the open and natural spaces that I enjoy hiking through would not exist, and hunters do much to support wildlife conservation. Far more than any of the so-called "animal rights" crowd.
Be that as it may, we must stand together. The gun bigots have claimed that hunting rifles are for sniping. They've already tried to ban Olympic rimfire pistols as assault weapons in one state, and those who wish to defend themselves or compete in High Power and 3-Gun have been under relentless attack.
We absolutely must speak up for one another. Without solidarity, we're toast.
