⛧ First Church of Hypocrisy, Blasphemy, and Self-Righteousness ⛧

Hunting with a gun ought to be illegal. Everyone knows nobody hunts for food in the Western world anymore, so anyone who hunts is just doing it because they love killing things. And they have the balls to call it a sport. Well, in that vein, let's make the only form of legal hunting be with your bare hands and/or with a bowie knife. If you can't catch and kill it without using something more than a bowie knife, then it isn't sporting enough. If the animal doesn't have an equal chance of killing you as you do of killing it, then it shouldn't be legal to hunt it.

Fuck anyone who disagrees.

If nothing else, it should be illegal for anyone under 18 to handle a gun for any reason. Goddamn high-powered murder machines, good for nothing but murder.

Taken from the comments to this post, where we are discussing Palin's wolf-killing program. The regular text is me, and the italics are dorkphoenyx:

The problem is that there is not currently enough prey to support an actively returning and strengthening wolf population.

Which is patently false. Caribou numbers may be depleted, but wolves can eat mice and other rodents, and frequently do when caribou are scarce; and there are more than enough of those little buggers for the wolves. And even if it *were* true, it would be the hunter's fault for over-hunting the caribou.

they enter population centers and become nuisance animals who pass maladaptive traits and behaviors on to their offspring, putting the survival of the population at risk

Also false. Wolves very very VERY rarely enter population centers, and only if they're rabid. So any chance of breeding by that point is nil, and even if they were breeding, rabes is not a genetic disease.

And even if it *were* true, nature has its own way of doing things that has worked for thousands of years, and humans always mess things up by trying to help.

You seriously need to read "Never Cry Wolf" by Farley Mowat.

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Propaganda.

This whole program looks the same as what the Canadian government was doing back when Farley Mowat was working for them, and that turned out to be under pressure from hunters who resented the competition from wolves. Which is also something ridiculous, as wolves only hunt the weakest and the slowest prey, and human hunters want the fattest and strongest and fastest prey.

Wanna *really* help the wolves and the caribou? Kill the human hunters! Make caribou a species protected from man, and make poaching them a capital offence!