raydawg wrote on 07/01/18 at 21:22:39:
At its core, hunting was for survival, food, yes?
Not "sport", tho it did become that later, to many.
Yes, hunting was for survival. Yet I believe their was a middle part left out. My great grandfather was probably the last that hunted for, survival. My Father, and I, hunted for 'Sport', Yet we were, Sportsman. We cleaned and consumed all we shot. Or we did not shoot it.
We did not 'need' to have that food. In fact, if you added up the cost of guns, ammo, special cloths, etc. etc. etc. etc. and etc. It would would have been cheaper just buying the meat in a supermarket.
(Which brings me to the statement from the Snowflake: "Just buy your meat from the supermarket, where no animal is harmed")Last 15 +/- years the States (Conservation Dept's, Fish and Game), started coming out with,
'Wanton Waste', laws. Which is, you can NOT, throw out your Fish/Ducks/Deer/etc.
In response to purely, 'Sport' hunting. Where a person,
(they call themselves a 'hunter', but they are not even close), buys the required License, (and etc), and SHOOTS, what EVER their license says. JUST to shoot. They are not even close to hunting.
And therein, lies the mindset:
'well sure I'll give up my guns, just gonna have to go golfing', that the ultra-Liberals heard a Hand full of them, then tell everybody, it is Millions.
Back to, 'sport' hunting. It has been around got a very long time, but only a very small amount of people. Take Jack O'Conner, (Well know-en Gun Nut), he hunted for 'Sport', also was a, 'shooter', and advanced the game of, 'shooting' to a degree only a shooter would know. (Just as someone knows who invented the 'ping', golf club).
So today, is, 'hunting' needed ?
NO, add it all up, supermarket is cheaper for the same Protein.
YET, missing is the bonding. Father/Son, Mother/Daughter, Father/Daughter, Mother/Son, etc. Is GONE.
Yea, the 'Cell Phone', replaces Human Interaction, with Parents and Siblings.
Years ago saw a two panel cartoon.
1st. Father, pipe and Fedora hat, said to Son,
"Let's go in, it's time I buy you a Gun and you start becoming a Man"2nd. Father, outside a mac&dons, said to his son:
"Let's go in, it's time I buy you a Big Mack, and make you a Man"
(If you cannot see the difference between a big mack, and a gun. If you cannot see the differences of what was said. Then their is no hope) (and On,
and ON,
and ON,
and ON, and ON)"... killing another human, before they kill me..."That is a very fundamental principal.
One has to prepare themselves mentally, long before such a possibility.
If you do, and realize their can be repructions after shooting someone, and accept it. Those are the people, you want around you.
If you don't, and realize that that you just, can't. Then step aside, and let someone else do it. Do not take away their, Rights, to defend themselves.