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: : Here son, respect that beautiful animal. Now blow its brains out. Give me a break.: NO you give me a break, because that is the bad reputation that hunters have. We may kill animals but we have tons of respect for all the animals that we kill. We dont go out in the woods with a six pack and try to blow an animals brains out. Hunting is completely different then what anyone thinks. Until you have gone hunting with a good hunter, because there are some bad ones, you can't understand what hunting is about.
I wasn't talking about slob hunters, who (I'll agree with you) are not hunters so much as cruel idiots with guns. But even if you respect the animals you kill, how does that change their fate? Again, hunting is not necessary in 2000, so why kill animals when it's not necessary?