Hunting Season??

OntarioVanMan · Dec 16, 2007

Leo should love this one!!

In the local paper here in South Dakota they were discussing the mountain lion population and this is a cut from a response from one reader.

mmmm, how many mountain lions have killed any humans lately???? not any i have heard of. yet how many drug dealers, pedafiles (sp?) rapists, murderers, armed robbers, have killed or hurt people. i think we need a new hunting season. every month we pick out the group that does the most harm to "humans". one month we go after the gang members, then the pedafiles, then the drug dealers. hahahaha i would buy a hunting license for all of those seasons. when you look at who you should really be afraid of, is it the mountain lion, or the worthless drug dealers, gang members, bums, and all other human waste we still allow to breath the same air and take up the same space as we do. do i care what happens to them ?????? not a bit !!!!!!!!! thank you and Merry Christmas to all the law abiding citizens of this wonderful country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

greg334 · Dec 16, 2007

OVM,
I find the mountain lion incident with the jacuzzi rather outrageous. It has been mentioned that the fault is with the home owner who has the jacuzzi, not with the mountain loin, but just because the cat visited to person and nothing happened, it is still the cat's fault - invading a human's home.

Then I read about a 5 year old who shot a bear, thinking that it was self defense. After reading that the kid was in a tree stand with his grandfather, how in the h*ll does any state allow a 5 year old to get a hunting license and if he didn't have one, isn't that poaching by most standards.

I support hunting but not like this, I believe the skill is needed and to be fair that kid should have been on the ground if he was going to hunt (I rip enough tree stands out of my property every year and now I am selling the scrap). If a 5 year old needs to go out and hunt, it should be to put food on the table, not for sport. As for skills, how can any parent be proud of his kids at that age sitting in a tree stand, near a bait pile waiting for a bear to clear the woods to shot it.

RichM · Dec 16, 2007

Ken I like it,can we have cash prizes for who bags the worst and who bags the most. Will there be limits as too how many you can go after,will different licenses and hardware be needed for different criminals. The old fashoned flame thrower would work real well in a crack house.

Black Sheep · Dec 16, 2007

Maybe those guys in SD have been reading about Joe Horn, the 61-year old guy in Houston,TX who recently shot and killed those two allegedly illegal Mexicans after they had burglarized his neighbor's house and were about to get away with their loot. Of course now the civil rights nazis are down there protesting and have been met in equal force with Horn's supporters. Did he have a right take a shotgun to those guys? Under TX law, he very well may have. It will be interesting to see how this plays out with the grand jury, and if they return an indictment against him. Even if they do, it sounds doubtful if they'll get a conviction from a jury of his peers.

Of course after reading about this and hearing about it on TV, it begs this question: what would you or I do under similar circumstances? You see some crooks breaking into your next door neighbor's house and then come out with stolen goods. You've called 911 and still no cops, and in a couple of minutes they'll be gone with who knows what kinds of valuables. You've got a .12 gauge shotgun loaded and ready to go - what happens next?

x06col · Dec 16, 2007

Yep!!!!

greg334 · Dec 16, 2007

Actually, I am very sure under Texas law, protection of property by deadly force is legal. I know there have been a few protecting their neighbors property by killing the guy who was stealing.

AND the two he shot were invaders, nothing alleged about them. They was poor family men who came here trying to eek out a living by robbing and stealing, gots to feel sorry for them.

LDB · Dec 16, 2007

Almost anything you read about hunting is not hunting, it is sniping. Hunting is stalking the game in it's element hoping to be good enough not sitting somewhere waiting on it to traipse by. Now as far as open season on criminals, I would love to see it but that's too extreme. There definitely should be no penalty anywhere for shooting them during commission of a crime though.

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arkjarhead · Dec 17, 2007

I don't know about the boy shooting the bear. Whether it is poaching or not that is. In Arkansas a kid can hunt with an adult until age 16 without a hunting liscense. Before age 16 to hunt by themselves they have to have completed the hunter's education course. All liscensed hunters born before 1968 are required to have a hunter's education card. So by Arkansas law the kid was legal because he was with his grandfather. Except in Arkansas you can't hunt bear over bait. The loophole in that is you can bait an area, and then remove the bait 14 days before you hunt the area and be completely legal.

My wife's uncle told me he read in a newspaper last year that a 2 year old shot a 10 point buck with a 30-06 during the youth hunt weekend. Sounds to me like dad took the shot and said the kid did it. I wouldn't have believed it, but he saved the article and showed me.