Yeah, teej, I don't think I would have shot him either, and that right there is what really ticks me off the most. The fact that I would abort a legal shoot because I'd have to then worry about my safety and the safety of my family as a result is just crazy.
And to call it murder? Come on. Murder is a word reserved for people, not animals. But the fact is that this bear had become anthropomorphized, and that's how we get headlines like the one on Drudge.
People have become so disconnected from reality that it's bordering on insanity. I'd be willing to bet that north of 95% of the 24,000 people who signed that petition are meat eaters. But I'd also be willing to bet that very few of them has ever thought about their hypocrisy. And the ones who have thought about it are content to just bury it back down in their fantasy world where they believe that as long as it's from the grocery or McDonalds, nothing really died.
Sorry to rant, but this stuff really works me up.
