05-05-2018, 01:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-05-2018, 01:59 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-05-2018, 10:14 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:I know that compromise with gun advocates is needed for these purposes and others. However, I do not see sport hunting as legitimate. In our time of humans endangering life on the planet, animals should be allowed to live. Where population regulation is needed, we have rangers who can deal with problems in more humane ways.(05-04-2018, 07:03 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(05-04-2018, 07:47 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(05-03-2018, 10:42 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Meanwhile, the reds (and especially the NRA leadership and all who support their policies) DO want to stop people who live in cities awash in guns from regulating them.
From my perspective, the phrase "awash in guns" is a values statement that the situation is unacceptable, and must change. The desire to regulate is a desire to use the force of government to change the culture. Thus, the point stands. Both cultures desire to change the other, and must to get their goals? They just don't see their own culture's infringements.
Certainly, in many urban areas, being awash with guns is indeed unacceptable. Those in rural areas seem resigned to accept it, although they too experience heightened gun violence as a direct result.
Except perhaps in such places as Detroit, which is becoming rural due to depopulation, the only legitimate uses for the common man for firearms are sport-hunting, target-shooting, or self-defense. If I had to live in bear country or cougar country I would keep a high-power weapon.
That includes tranquilizer guns and transport vehicles to move animals to their proper territory. This could also be an alternative for those living in bear or cougar country. Then again, why should humans live in bear or cougar country? Shouldn't other species be allowed to have their territories as well as humans?
Bears are scary beasts. But I remember in the old days my family would take a vacation in Yosemite and the bears would come at night and steal food. We heard one; he came and went and that was that. Unless their cubs are threatened, bears may not be all that dangerous. But I know, fear is understandable.