Showcasing hunting photos
It can’t go without saying any longer that the photos included in the newspaper, at random, of hunt kills is getting to be disgusting and unnecessary. I am of the understanding that in this area of Pennsylvania hunting is a sport, albeit with automatic ammo or with a bow and arrow. However, to have pictures of dead deer and the latest, a truckload of dead bear including an albino, is just enough for me and my family.
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My 5-year-old daughter has seen bear this summer in Wyoming and understands that they are wild animals, but when explanations on my end need to be done regarding why the bears are in the back of a pick up truck, with blood dripping down the back of the bed and not roaming in the wild, that’s where the line needs to be drawn. Please respect the children and non-hunters of this county and area with a possible new approach to showcasing the “harvest” of animals over the hunting season.
I do believe that one should be proud of their accomplishments of “bagging a buck” or “harvesting a bear” and so forth, but perhaps having a separate section, as you do with the Holiday Gift Guide, the Senior Times, Wedding Planners and so forth, to showcase the pictures and information sent into the paper over the season would be an option you should consider. I then, at that point, can choose to view the photos or make sure that my children do not have to view and question the animals that are dead and being photographed for all to see.
In my opinion, hunters should be excited for a publication such as this to be published once or twice a year and you would be able to show even more kills than just the normal buck and bear…what about turkeys, rabbits, elk and so forth? Please consider another approach…for the offended and the young children that do not quite understand the nature of the hunt.
Gwendolyn H. Babcock
Dallastown
Think of hunters the same way you think of a cat when it drags in a dead bird or bunny. "Look what I've killed! Help me play with it then eat it." Hunters and cats have an innate desire to kill because they can do it. Treat them as subhuman life forms which cannot help themselves.
I can't agree more with Ms. Babcock about those pictures of "hunters", lovingly cradling the heads of slaughtered(and what's with this b.s. about calling it "harvested") animals.You fail to consider that many of us do NOT go out killing wild creatures for "sport", nor do we appreciate opening the paper and looking at casually slaughtered animals as page decorations. Enough already. No self respecting paper would publish such crap.
Don't read the paper during hunting season then. Maybe you should move to China where everything you see is censored and the gov't doesn't allow you to do jack. I bet after that experience you'd be a little more tolerant of some hunting pictures in the local paper. Quit whining about the things you don't like and start being a little more appreciative of the freedom this country allows us.
I love to see dead deer and bear in the back of the truck, its called the spirt of the wild, hunting is a way of life so get used to it, raise your kids to be tuff not little cry babies all their life, remember (you cant grill it til you kill it)