(UNEDITED) It's that time of year again when grown men dress in bright orange and camouflage outfits to proudly display themselves in a cliche'd photograph posing with a dead animal, as shown on the Standard Examiner's Thursday October 22nd front page.
If I live to be 100, I will never fully understand what drives a person to want to point a firearm at a defenseless animal and end its life. What justification does a person have for doing this? Is it ego gratification, or the thrill of knowing you can kill something without conscience?
We are no longer living in a hunter and gatherer society like prehistoric cavemen where survival of the fittest is the law of the land. Perhaps hunters want to revert back to their cavemen roots in an attempt to show that their brains have not fully evolved and developed?
With the time, energy and money invested in preparing for a hunting trip, you could purchase an entire winter's supply of quality meat at your local grocer or butcher shop for less than half the price. Why go hunting when you can buy meat locally, and without much effort?
Steve D. Stones
Ogden
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