My daddy always told us if we shoot it we have to eat it. If a few of these cops had to eat a dog or two this B.S. would stop real soon.
That's how my family and all my neighbors were growing up, only exception was poisonous snakes. You didn't take a life just for amusement or sport, you'd better use it or you've just done a bad thing. That was before coyotes started showing up in the area, though. Still, idiots blasting the life out of anything that moves just because they can and leaving the carcass to rot give hunters and gun owners in general a bad name. So, don't do it. Teach your kids not to do it. Shame those you see doing it. If they have a badge, it's even worse.