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Powergamz1 -> RE: Guns (1/28/2013 5:18:21 AM)
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First, in all parts of this country, the main source of food is drive-throughs. A hunter going out alone as part of regular chores, and stocking the larder hasn't been the norm for a while.
Second, if the overwhelming majority of 'hunters' could find their ass with both hands, the aisles at WalMart/Kmart/BassPro and every local outdoor sports shop wouldn't be piled high with 50 lb bags of corn, timed deer feeders, trail-cams, tree-stands, and 4XL camo. There wouldn't be hunter shootings in every rural county in the US during hunting season. Alcohol sales wouldn't spike on the way to hunt camps. Deer population wouldn't be at disease spreading levels.
And the military wouldn't have such an abysmal rate of 'good ole boys' needing to be taught how to hit a target without a scope.
As long as you are peddling tired old fantasies, got any bridges?
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ORIGINAL: Powergamz1
Well this does raise an interesting point about frame of reference... the actual occurence of hunting in the US although an anachronism, does remain part of a direct lineage going back to the colonist/monarchist split.
In England, all wildlife belonged to the Crown (the charge for poaching was 'Taking the king's deer', and was a no-no for peasants, barring the occasional bunny-bop.
The elite were allowed all sorts of sports and gluttonous feasting on the results of the carnage, but the average person was already getting their animal food from knackers and fishermen at the time Daniel Boone was splitting bullets and kilting 'Bars'.
The image of the lone woodsman in the US remained one of providing food for one's own table. Even though it has morphed into today's alcohol fueled spree shooting where countless deer, corn feeders, floodlights, and the occasional enemy hunter die annually, the mythical image remains. It is a twin of the Gary Cooper lone hero with a six-shooter making entire communities safe against hirsute and unkempt gangs. The closest the Brits have to that iconic image is something called I believe 'Morris Dancing'...
In many parts of the country deer hunting is far from an anachronism many people eat venison all year, for some it is the primary source of meat. Your alcohol fuel spree shooting is an abomination spurined by the overwhelming majority of hunters but hyped by anti hunting groups.
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