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It's time shooters grew up : Comments

By Tony Smith, published 15/6/2012

It is not a mature and stable personality trait to require killing for one's identity formation.

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This article is an example of fact-free moral entrepreneurship. Note his use of emotive language to create a picture of irresponsible lunatics blasting away at the risk of all - completely ignoring a ton of evidence from the state forests of NSW where hunting is allowed, and the forests and parks of Victoria where hunting is allowed. The tens of thousands of feral animals culled mean feed for natives and reduce predator pressure on the remaining small marsupials NOT killed by foxes and feral cats. Statistically, the number of problems arising is very small indeed compared with teh level of huntign activity there. So is the author being dishonest? Not at all. Because he is too lazy to gather data, he pulls a scary picture out of his fundamental aperture, and just pretends it is valid evidence.

Call it by its real name; its the 'argument from ignorance'.
Posted by ChrisPer, Saturday, 16 June 2012 12:15:55 AM
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With the NDAA,Patriot Act and the fact the USA is turning into a facist state,the USA people may need all the shooters they can muster to protect themslves from their Govt.The German people were not armed so Hitler has his way.

I'm don't like guns but they may be a necessary evil.Many people say they don't like killing but will eat a steak with realish not considering it was killed.
Posted by Arjay, Saturday, 16 June 2012 12:37:43 PM
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eat a steak with realish not considering it was killed.
Arjay,
That's stock standard hypocrisy, you'll find it in everyday life around every corner.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 16 June 2012 9:54:20 PM
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In WW11 the fact that a very large percentage of Ozzies had supplemented their diet with rabbits & ducks they had shot, meant most Ozzies could hit a barn door with a gun.

This is the only reason we got away with stopping the Japs in New Guinea, with a bunch of half trained kids, in the militia, as we did.

Today it takes days just to teach many recruits how to hold a rifle. Many of them close their eyes & jump, when the thing goes off. The girls are even worse.

I wonder how long it will be before all this bleeding heart business actually bites us on the bum. It's only a matter of time.
Posted by Hasbeen, Saturday, 16 June 2012 11:01:08 PM
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It is really time non-shooters,like non-smokers and non-drinkers learned to live and let live.

I used to shoot kangaroos on a semi-professional basis and have shot rabbits and caught fish for the table. It is good way of reminding yourself than you are a predator and doing the "dirty work" personally instead of paying someone else to do it for you. A shooter bagging a bunny for the pot could indeed be fairly compared to a vegan growing and picking his own mung beans.

I no longer shoot except, occasionally, at paper targets but if someone else wants to brave the elements and pit his wits against feral animals it is not for me or anyone else to tell him he can't. On the matter of National Parks for too long they have been a haven for feral pests and a repository of overgrown vegetation just waiting to turn into an uncontrollable fire. If the parks authorities are now allowing sporting shooters to do the necessary culling at no cost to the taxpayers that is a long overdue and sensible decision.
Posted by madmick, Saturday, 16 June 2012 11:53:28 PM
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I can't fathom the rationalè of defending yourself is not a valid reason to obtain a gun license yet shooting holes into a piece of paper is ?
I'd dearly like to take one of the anti gun mutts & take them for a hike through some of the places I frequent. I'd say to them "see that huge boar there ? "When he comes charging towards you just counsel him whilst I level the gun" "I'll wait till you finished talking to him then I'll try my method".
Posted by individual, Sunday, 17 June 2012 9:32:22 AM
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