Ok, you guys can dress things up however you want. You believe in degrees of killing and you tidy the whole thing up to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside by overemphasizing one potential aspect.
First point is that guns are not just used to kill. And when they are, most hunters attempt to be as accurate as possible to make a clean kill. Don't attempt to explain things you can't seem to understand. I do not enjoy the single aspect of killing. I do enjoy when I make a clean shot resulting in a clean kill. I do understand that I am a part of nature and not just some observer on the outside and that if it weren't for hunters like me, you would not get to see the animals you hold so precious. I guess balance of nature doesn't equate with you guys. I am sure you are fine with the killing predatory animals if they were killing people or killing the livestock that would have otherwise ended up as your Saturday night dinner.
Now to suggest that slaughtering is somehow more humane than me hunting an animal that has more abilities to evade me than I do to take him is simply ridiculous. Mainly there is nothing humane in the way the meat that you buy from the supermarket was harvested. This is a little absurb. I suggest before you condemn others, you do a little hands on research. Please visit any pork, chicken or beef operation and view it from beginning to end and tell me where does humane come into play.
I take great pleasure in providing habitat for the animals in which I hunt on an open range. I take great pleasure trying to outwit them and their many heightened senses of which I have to attempt to employ numerous different ways to overcome. LV, the comment of saying give them guns is simply asinine. I suppose we should condemn all predators for killing an animal for their food or condemn most cat owners because they let their cats out that kill defenseless mice and birds but do not consume them. They simply do it for the pleasure.
Candy coat things how you like that makes you feel better in life but don't expect people of logic to somehow believe that not hunting animals is somehow "smarter". You know it's Ok if you don't like vanilla ice cream but don't try to impune me because I do. And yes it boils down to being that simple. You don't like it, fine. But that does not make it wrong no matter how you try to dress it up.
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