This thread is just FULL of controversial topics! What's uncomfortable about replying to it is commenting on a person's opinion here is often seen as a personal attck on the person themself and not just a different opinion. Please read my statements here as my "opinion" and not a personal attack on anyone. I'd like to think that my opinions are based on a lot of fact and personal experience. One fact is, dove can fly at a speed of about 45 miles per hour. If you think it doesn't take a certain level of skill to shoot and hit them on a consistant basis, my opinion is, you have never tried it. Ducks can fly about 60mph. Granted, it doesn't take a whole lot of skill to shoot a deer that is standing still, sideways, in a clearing at 100 yards with a gun that has been properly sighted in but, unless you are a lucky road hunter, it did take some hunting skills to arrive at that shot. Then, after taking the game, you have to know how to properly field dress that animal and how to care for it until it can be butchered, wrapped and refrigerated/frozen. Yes, most of us enjoy the hunt but not the killing. I may enjoy hunting or fishing but it beats going to the store to buy fish or meat that I, by proxy, had someone else kill and I don't even enjoy the shopping experience. I don't have "fun" going to Mc Donald's either to gather food that someone else had "fun" killing at the slaughterhouse. Do store-bought hogs or beef not realize their existence, or have feelings or emotions? I believe they do so, unless one wants to become a total veggie, you will just have to disrupt the life of some pen-raised, often cruely-treated, hormone-fed, wading in their own waste, animal. There is nothing closer to nature and how humans should interact with it than gathering your own food from the wild. I have felt sympathy for game I have taken and I ask, has anyone ever ordered their double cheeseburger and felt sympathy for the beef in it? Another opinion I have is, if you really read and honestly try to understand what I'm saying, you almost would have to lean towards my way of thinking, at least "slightly".
Another opinion of mine is, Walmart not selling guns to people that live in tents WILL NOT reduce the number of gun crimes. Getting serious with the laws is what will curtail crime. THAT'S what 10-20-life is all about......STRONGER/LONGER sentencing!! Has absolutely nothing to do with the sale of guns. People have just as many, if not more, guns than ever before but stricter sentencing makes the crooks that have at least half a brain think about what they are doing. Honorable gun owners have always said the laws for the bad guy have to be tougher, not more gun restriction laws. 10-20-life just proves the NRA is right.....in my opinion anyway.
