I was completely engrossed in a personal issue and decided to take advantage of the nice weather to take a long walk and try to sort things out. I didn't get far. At the entrance to Davis Park on Chestnut Ridge Road (which for the record had tons of traffic and is a residential area), I saw what appeared to be a large dog. I was, as anyone who knows me could easily guess, sad about the death of an animal and angry that I had to be the one to notify some family that one of its members had been killed. Until I got up to it and realized it was a deer. Just a baby. The instant recognition that there was no family to mourn made me sadder. Then I saw the bullet hole.
I cannot describe accurately the intense grief and anger that I experienced and am still experiencing. There is just so much wrong with it. For one, it's a residential area right next to a public park and dangerous--not to mention illegal--to shoot there. For another--it was a baby. It was left by the side of the road. Someone embarrassed that they could only kill a baby? Just satisfied with murdering a living creature in cold blood and not needing a trophy? Dissatisfied with an unproductive day of hunting and not able to sleep until killing something?
For those people who hunt there are some things you should know.
-You don't need the meat. You don't need it at all, but if you are convinced you do, go to the store. The notion that you must hunt to survive was outdated a very long time ago.
-Killing animals is not a sport. It's murder. If you must kill something get a video game.
-Guns are not the problem. If you like shooting use clay targets or go to a range.-If you are pathetic enough to still need to kill things, do not do it in a residential area--the risk is very real that you will kill a human baby instead of a deer. And unlike the deer, you will go to prison for killing the human. (Not that you don't deserve it).
-Despite the weird association people have with guns and masculinity, killing things doesn't make you more of a man (or a person)--it makes you less of one. Try having the balls to take care of animals and your fellow humans--it's a lot harder and makes you a lot stronger.
-If you actually think that you are proving that you are dominant over nature, you are dillusional. Try going after the animal with the same tools it has--if you can take it down on foot with your bare hands, then we'll argue your dominance.
-The big gun doesn't compensate for a small penis. If anything, it draws attention to the fact that you are dickless.
And finally, to answer all the pathetically feeble arguments I've gotten from hunters:
-No I do not eat meat.
-Yes, there is a population problem with deer. However, for less than the cost of your bullets the parks departments and towns have access to a birth control alternative, but since that would mean you wouldn't get to shoot them, you don't want to hear about it. Let's both stop pretending that you have magically developed an environmental conscience--and while we're at it let's examine why there is a population problem. Human overpopulation has eliminated natural preditors. Instead of shooting a deer, how about using a condom.
-It does not matter how much of the animal you use, if you didn't need it (which you didn't) you shot it because it made you feel good.
-The taste of venison is irrelevant. Wrong is wrong. Period.
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