Dear C.A.S.H. members, donors, supporters, non-hunters, and full-fledged anti-hunters, in fact, anyone who might stumble onto this publication (except those of you who consider yourselves sport hunters–this newsletter was not really meant for your eyes, and I’d hate for your heads to explode.)
One of our continuing projects here at the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting is to make daily checks of google alerts under the headings “Hunting Accidents” and other, related keywords, such as “hunting,” “trapping” and “hunter,” for anything that should go on our website’s Hunting Accidents/Hunting Violations page. That and our daily blog and Facebook page are constantly updated with items of interest to good sport hunting abolitionists like yourselves.
Well, one thing that’s really stood out (since the beginning of the new year) has been the dozens and dozens of articles repeating one another, over and over ad-nauseum, bragging to their readers how safe the year 2022 has been in the state of Texas for hunting accidents (so far). Each of them crowing boldly that there have been no hunting accidents since the calendar changed over to the current year. That got me thinking that they sound like they’re covering for something and trying to spruce up hunting’s image to distract the populous from the harsh reality of sport “harvesting.” The fact that the thousands of bullets flying every which way are eventually going to hit a member of the most numerous species on the planet (the only species that really matters to them) and go on record as a yet another hunting accident.
Sure enough, a quick check at our website’s Hunting Accidents archives and it became clear that they were all copying practically word for word a state game department press release, which must have been trying to make up for several tragic incidents, including a fatality just last November 27th, when a father in East Texas shot and killed his 11-year-old daughter with a high-powered rifle while they were partici- pating in a friendly hunting outing.
The following is from a local Texas news station: “Sheriff’s deputies said when they arrived on scene, they found the girl with life-threatening injuries. The girl was supposed to be taken to the hospital by helicopter but due to inclement weather in the area, all emergency helicopters were grounded. Deputies said she had to be taken by EMS to Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview. Despite lifesaving efforts, the girl was pronounced dead, officials said.”
Unfortunately, sad scenarios such as this will continue as long as hunting is a “sport.”
Until next time.
Jim
Jim Robertson
President, the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting