By Herman Lenz
I don’t know of anyone who would freeze or starve to death today if hunting and trapping of animals were banned or outlawed. Most of the zealots who are in that game of cruelty are not in it for the “need,” but primarily because they think it’s fun to kill and wound, and cause misery to animals and birds. They’re desensitized to cruelty. The most disturbing thing to me is that religion doesn’t condemn hunting when it’s not needed, rather religion puts its blessing on it. ….Not so long ago, the rednecks ridiculed and scoffed at women’s rights and minority rights, but change came in anyway.
Wildlife management is done by hunters and trappers. Wouldn’t it be just as fair to have such management done by those concerned with the welfare of individual animals?
Sadly, lawmakers ease and expand laws and regulations on cruelty to animals. Those who try to protect animals are ignored by lawmakers. At great expense, protectors have to try to work through the courts to get positive change, although judges are all too frequently biased in favor of the status quo. As much as the hunters invoke the Second Amendment to justify sport hunting, sport hunting has nothing to do with the right to keep and bear arms.
Herman Lenz of Iowa is a longtime C.A.S.H. member.