Much like driving an automobile, hunting is a privledge-- not a right. If it was a right, we wouldn't have to get a blue card and pay all the fees and otherwise jump through all the hoops one must do to be able to hunt. As far as the anti's go, they honestly think they are doing the right thing and if one is not thoughtfull in how they counter them, they gain strength through hunters actions.
I mostly fish and only dabble in hunting, but I am definetly pro-hunting and on the side of hunters in most situations. My main gripe with hunters is the types who think that game exists for the sole purpose for them to shoot. We are all part of an ecosystem and hunting has it's place in that; but not to the detrement of any individual species. Predators have a place in that system and should not be eliminated merely so that hunters have more prefered animals to harvest. When the state is running nothing more than a ranching operation for hunters, that puts folks like me at odds with hunters that think that is the way to go.
By definition, hunting is not a garunteed right that we are born with, and if hunters do not prove themselves as responsible stewards of the environment, it is a privledge that will be stripped away from us by and by.
I mostly fish and only dabble in hunting, but I am definetly pro-hunting and on the side of hunters in most situations. My main gripe with hunters is the types who think that game exists for the sole purpose for them to shoot. We are all part of an ecosystem and hunting has it's place in that; but not to the detrement of any individual species. Predators have a place in that system and should not be eliminated merely so that hunters have more prefered animals to harvest. When the state is running nothing more than a ranching operation for hunters, that puts folks like me at odds with hunters that think that is the way to go.
By definition, hunting is not a garunteed right that we are born with, and if hunters do not prove themselves as responsible stewards of the environment, it is a privledge that will be stripped away from us by and by.