I agree.

I've never understood the whole idea of hunting just for the sport of it. If you are going to use the meat of the animal and legal licenses are available, fine. Otherwise, it's unnecessary cruelty unless the animal is a threat, ie rabid.

I don't think that makes me a liberal, I'd like to think it makes me more like a Teddy Roosevelt style conservationist. I hope John doesn't kick my butt ;-)

>>I'm with you. I'm not going to go run around and pick a fight with a bear for no reason but if one started a fight with me and I had a gun - one dead bear. If I didn't and the bear got me with his claws, one dead me.
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>Sure, but that's just self-defense. Stalking the bear with the intention of killing it from a distance so it doesn't have a fighting chance is a different thing altogether.