Joe & Dale:

Nowhere can beat Colorado and/or Wyoming as deer hunting capitols. schhols are let out there, too, for hunting. Mayhap growing up there is what brought me to such a radical notion that animals should be let to live?

I can't count the number of times I read a newspaper, when growing up, of somebody or somebody's horse, cow, etc. being shot by some brain-impaired yoyo with a gun, who couldn't recognize the fact that wildlife don't shop at Coast to Coast for orange vests, nor do they have owners who will buy it for them and drape it over their bods in the vain hope someone will recognize them as a domestic and NOT shoot!

I was raised with guns and became a crack shot, but we never went hunting and were taught a healthy respect for guns and the lethal damage they could do. We weren't even allowed to point toy guns and if we did take a gun up with intent to do damage, which none of us ever did, we were taught to be "damn sure" we were ready to accept responsibility for the consequences and, quite frankly, to shoot to kill. My great grandfather had been in shootout with a sheepherder in Colorado and wound up killing him in self defense. When the sheepherder's friends tried to get him convicted of murder, the widow went to court and said it was the best thing anybody had ever done for her. Her son became my grandad's best friend.

Ah, well, Joe, didn't mean to go on, but guns and hunting do get my dander up, esp. in this benighted state (WY) where they voted to lower the age for legal hunting to 12!

Men in church on Sunday? Not when they can be out in the great wide open wreaking havoc in the forests of God's/Goddess's Creation! Those deer are such heathens, ya' know?

On a sarcastic bent, I am,

Kat