Posted on 11/20/2017 2:34:38 PM PST by leaymane
There are many misconceptions surrounding gun ownership and hunting, Michael Gooder says on the occasion of his family’s annual “Pheasant Opener.” Hunting is all about fellowship and, in Gooder’s case, harvesting and serving the wild bird to the hunters and their guests. “It’s from the hunt to the table in one day,” the Cresco, Iowa, man explains.
“It’s not just about going out into the field and killing. It’s more important to us to have a good ethical hunt, harvest a few birds, and then prepare it immediately so that people can really understand what hunting is about.”
“Hunters are truly great environmentalists,” Gooder says, because they give back to the environment by planting trees and creating habitats for deer and pheasants, songbirds and small game, and many other forms of wildlife.
The last presidential election proved how politically potent hunters can be, because there was a clear difference in what the two candidates were proposing in regards to gun rights, Gooder says. Hunters voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump because he was seen as the candidate who would protect gun rights and the hunting culture.
This echoes what others in the rural Midwest have said about the importance of gun rights. In rural Wisconsin, Democratic state senator Kathy Vinehout said many people voted for Trump because they felt that with Hillary Clinton as president, their gun rights would be stripped and they wouldn’t be able to “fill their freezers.”
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Isn’t it obvious? Gun control would destroy hunters’ way of life.
How about gun rights and personal liberty culture?
Yeah, that too. Might as well start a list of all the things gun control takes away.
I think that what stylin19a is saying is that the gun control crowd has LONG tried to separate hunters from liberty advocates; many of us liberty advocates (myself included) don’t hunt, while many hunters don’t own something like an AR-15 or an AK-47. They want to separate us, whereas we HAVE to understand Franklin’s dictum that “we must all hang together, or surely we will all hang separately.”
thanks...you seem to be making my point.
Thanks. I was replying when you replied. I should have waited a minute.
Any time, glad to be of any help. One problem is that many people get too dogmatic...and I think that it almost always helps to get people to take a step back and look at the big picture.
I am a hunter, primarily birds (because I am getting to old and lazy for big game) but what does this have to do with with my SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
The SECOND AMENDMENT was specifically written to PREVENT OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT, not to hunt.
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