Hunting debate.  How do anti's justify their existence, if it were not for harvesting game by their ..?
828363
Educate yourself.  Most anti's are ignorant, ill informed and feed on propaganda.  If you know the truth and are educated in the science then you will be able to win every argument.  You know you are right now go out and get the data and the facts to back your own beliefs.
481985
No.  It should be legal because it's another means for people to provide food for their family.\n\nWhere I disagree with it is when people just hunt for the thrill of the kill and for a trophy.  That shows a disrespect for life.
1012759
why you want to kill any animal or bird for fun, it`s different if you have to kill for food, but a defenceless creature doing you no harm, i really hope that some day,  someone puts you  under fire and you get to experience the `THRILL` from being hit. you sick B*****d
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DEAR HEAVENS!!  To the person who said something about forefathers, your logic is not flawed ~ it is non-existent!\n\nWhen the SETTLERS came here, they came to SETTLE.  Did they do the indigenous peoples wrong?  After a while, without question they did.  However, that is not the point right now.\n\nThe point is that there was, at *that* time, ROOM here.  People could go carve their world out of pieces of wilderness, risking life and limb on a daily basis.  They could worship freely; they could hunt and feed their family without fear of being sentenced to death for it; and on and on it goes.\n\nWe no longer NEED any more people here.  We're loaded to capacity as it is.  Every Country should do its best to improve itself and the citizens of that Country should HELP ~ not go elsewhere and burden another Country.\n\nIn answer to the actual question:  I don't think we should keep our borders open.  In fact, I think they should be closed until our current crises are repaired.  Once repaired, we could re-open our borders with more stringent and specific laws.  As another Responder said on another question, if we need an example of how to limit immigration, we need look only so far as the Mexican Constitution and their requirements for citizenship.\n\nTO TOPCAT420:  Amen!  I have difficulty justifying "fixing" things for other Countries when we have so much fixing we need to do right here!  I have long been a believer in restoring more lands to the Native American people, along with any and all mineral rights thereto.  And that's why i said we are loaded to capacity as it is!  We have enough for now.  We need to right a whole list of wrongs committed against the Native Americans, we need to stop children starving here in the U.S., we need to clean up our own interurban areas .. we have a LOT to do at home, for ourselves and by ourselves, before we can consider re-opening borders and helping others.\n\nThe U.S. has helped others until we've helped ourselves right into a hole.
870287
Men are natural hunters. They usually don't give up until they conquer their prey. :)
903490
I think you're thinking about this whole thing in the wrong way.\n\nYou dismiss brains, where that's our greatest strength. Why say "no weapons" when you suppose a fight, when we DO have weapons?\n\nWe have guile, and we can have weapons -- we don't taste all that great, and being meat-eaters, we aren't prey for those who eat herbivores (bear, wolves, cougars, etc. -- they eat easier prey).\n\nYou seem to assume that predators attack every creature they come across, which isn't true -- they attack plant-eaters, that they have a chance of consuming -- they don't waste their energy on "let's kill anything" but choose what to attack.\n\nWe aren't in constant fights for our lives from predators. We ARE predators.\n\nAnd we have weapons, and brains -- which we often used to take food from other predators.\n\nAnd now, we seldom, if ever, meet anything that wants to eat us.\n\nThere's something wrong about how you're thinking of this issue.
514119
Self defense my a s s.They werent trained to sit out and hunt illegals.If the picnic men decide to do this its at their own risk.Dont complain!
987949
The issue is really the purpose behind the killing. Is it killing to get rid of injustice and oppression, or is it meaningless killing or killing based upon blind assumptions? \n\nIf its the first case, then killing is perfectly justified.
1074972
Have you ever tried living off the land? It's very, VERY hard work, that's why so many kids leave the farm. It's an 18-hour (or more) a day job, and it's 365 days a year. The crops have to be tended, the livestock fed & cared for, and if you're doing this without money, slaughtered, butchered & prepared for storage.  And if you mean hunting & gathering, that is even harder. Hunter gatherer societies live at base subsistence levels; no time for anything else, really.\n\nI agree that there has to be a better way; our money-based society is turning out to not so great, either, except for the folks at the top table. It reminds me more & more of "Animal Farm" every day. The pigs are in the dinig room, and we're all in the barnyard looking in. More & more of us are finding life to be a struggle. I don't know that there is an answer.
759400
this upsets me as well. most people have good hearts then there are those that are heartless.ignorance is for those who take innocent lives even if it is an animal. they deserve to live as much as we do.ive avoid hitting many of our wild friends but i tried to miss a rabbit one night but the lights scared him or her and i ran over the cottontail.i have hunted for food but not for sport. i think it is a sin to kill just because you have a gun.GOD made all these creatures for our pleasure in seeing them and for food when needed. i take a dim view on killing just because you can. man is superior to wild animals but we are to take care of all that is on earth.why not find this guy and ask him if he wanted to get run over by his truck?quite bold but would get his attention.
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Tree huggers have nothing to do with hunting.  Don't you mean animal rights activists???\n\nNo, sorry, I know some good places in Oregon though.  :-)\n\nP.S.  The person that made the comment above mine should learn grammer before they start judging people for spelling.
513299
Bear is edible because they are mostly plant-eaters.There are many bear hunters who fill their freezer, like deer, elk, and moose hunters. On the other hand, lion, tiger, and other carnivores taste terrible. They are not hunted for their meat, they are hunted either as a defensive measure or for the "trophy" - head, skin, or both.\n\nPeople who "trophy hunt" simply want to be able to brag about what they've hunted. Like having the most expensive car, the biggest house, etc. What usually makes it even more inane is the fact that they're not even pitting themselves against the animal. They have trackers and shoot from long distances to kill their prey - it's not really much of a sport at all.
840519
I don't know,...why? I will say that I am caucasion/american indian. And alot of people dislike Indians. They call them "savages" however that is their opinion. And my opinion is this,...there are more "savages" today  and worse "savages" today than there were then. \nEX: Indians killed for territory\nNow people kill for shoes,jackets,other items they want\nIndians killed animals and used all of the animal for warmth,food\nNow people kill animals for sport and don't use any of the animal for anything\nSo who are the savages?
1179812
Certain species may be protected so yes...it would be illegal to chase them though why you would want to do so, I can only wonder.
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Check out these sites.  They might help you.\n\nhttp://www.basecampleasing.com/oklahoma-hunting-leases.htm\nhttp://www.kerrcenter.com/publications/2002_proceedings/hunting_leases.pdf\n\nAnd people hunt for a variety of reasons.  Some just like to kill.  A lot of others actually eat the meat of the deer they shoot.  It's good.  Also they are helping control the deer population...or whatever other wildlife they are hunting.  If we don't shoot them, they can become over populated and can starve.  That is a much more cruel death that being shot.
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In my mind there are two types of hunters and two types of hunting......\n\nThe first type of hunter is the one who enjoys nature and really does not care if they get that big buck.  They hunt because they love the experiance of watching that squirrel sitting 10 feet away, or having a deer walk so close you could reach out and touch it.  They hunt to put meat in the freezer and if they don't, its not a big deal, but they love know that the meat they have was something they worked for and earned.  If they don't like the meat, the always make sure to have someone who will take it.  \n\nThe other type is the ones who hunt just to say they shot that big buck, or the big bear or whatever.  The shot the animal, take the horns and could really care less about what happens to the rest of the animal.....They don't care about conservation, they don't care what happens to the rest of the animals as long as they get the trophy.  \n\nThose are the ones the antis see.  They don't realize that a majority of hunter love what we do.  They also don't realize that we do more for the protection and conservation of game animals that they do.....who do you think pays for all of the new game reserves and management areas...the hunters paying for the tags a permits to hunt.  Who do you think manages them, the people who enjoy the animals, most of the hunters themselves, who really understand what is involved.  All antis see is killing.  THey don't understand what will happen if hunting were banned.  The don't see and refuse to see.  We hunters do more for protecting the animals we hunt than any person sitting behind some desk saying stop killing animals......I for one am proud of that...and I will continue to enjoy my time in the field and to pass on the true meaning of hunting, the ethics involved, and the proper ways to ensure a good clean hunt to my children and anyone else willing to listen.
28005
A taxidermy of a hunter's head (kidding).. I guess I'm not a hunter but a animal lover. I dont find shooting an innocent deer as fun, its more cruel and inhumane but then again, those hunters would probably end up killing people if they cant kill helpless animals.