DmG: "I wonder how many need to hunt.
If they want to hunt for sport I would not dress that as need myself."

I am most definitely in favor of effective gun control and I hope that the USA will eventually come to what I consider its senses, but having to hunt is hardly the issue, Dave.

Whenever we eat meat someone had to kill it. That's a given, of course. However, eating meat supplied by commercial enterprises and from commercial operations has problems that capturing wild game usually does not.

I personally do not hunt- never have - but I have many friends who go get their deer, caribou, elk, moose for their year 'round use. A single clean shot is inarguably better in my opinion than the mass slaughter we all condone.