The latest children's book about hunting This arrived in my inbox today: "Children's book about hunting endorsed by Mark Kayser and Ted Nugent." This is wrong on so many levels. First off, it’s unfair to lump in the Motor City Madman, who plays some kick-ass guitar on “Wango Tango,” with Mark Whoever, who never played guitar on anything, as far as I can tell from Wikipedia. The release, from author Matthew Butler, continues: “I have recently written a book called Billy Goes Hunting. ... It seems that so many people associate hunting with cruelty or unfairness to animals.” Hunting would be fair if the animals also got guns, but surprisingly few hunters go for that sort of thing. Perhaps it’s considered cruel because one of the parties involved, the hunted, often winds up dead. Now, before I’m branded a bleeding-heart liberal, let me say that I’m no stranger to firearms (my dad was an Army instructor) and have no qualms about responsible citizens legally owning guns. But if elk or moose ever put in some time on the firing range, hunters everywhere better drop to their knees and prey—er, pray—they get their money’s worth on those camouflage outfits they bought at REI Sports. —Posted by David Gianatasio

April 3, 2008 in Gianatasio | Permalink

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I feel you are a bleeding heart liberal!!!! all though your Daddy might have taught our brave young men and women how to shoot. You have no understanding of conservation and before you talk about deer not shooting back have you ever had a car accident with a deer. They do damage. The one tangled with got away. I think you should learn more about what your talking about and as far as animals shooting back you really have lost your solid brain mass and it must all have gone to mush!

Go back and hide in college you sis or go live in a city wear wild life never enters your brain. Until you see a book you should have read as a child and probably didn't even read before writing this!

Posted by: Christian | Apr 3, 2008 10:49:35 AM

Is it "Polarize and piss off your readership Day"? I only assume you're vegetarian, because ... you know what, I won't add ammo to this troll post. Stick to advertising.

Posted by: Pace | Apr 3, 2008 1:06:34 PM

I think it is beyond man's reach to make elk and deer more like humans, but if you wanted hunting to be more fair, we hunters could try our best to act more like animals. We could make sure we only wound our prey enough to knock it down, then go eat the insides out of it as it lay dying. Or, even better, we could separate the baby calf/fawn/kid from it's mom, and let her watch while we eat it alive.

I mean, I know I would prefer to get shot in the heart on a nice sunny day rather than be eaten alive by coyotes or wolves, but I guess that is a purely human preference.

Posted by: Kimberly | Apr 3, 2008 3:27:47 PM

I give all the animals I kill a gun before I pump them full of lead. I have yet to even be shot at.

Any more suggestions?

Posted by: DBag | Apr 6, 2008 2:08:06 PM

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