Re: north Texas aerial hog hunting
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 50calcruiser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So I guess we agree then? </div></div>
I guess your assumption of agreement is based on the silence following your "rational and valid" argument... in which case no, I still don't agree with your point-of-view.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 50calcruiser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You guys ever poison mice in your home? Know how the poison works? You think it's humane to kill an animal slowly over the course of two or three days due to internal hemorrhaging? You think that might be painful? Do you care? </div></div>
Nah, snap traps for me. Don't really care for mice going and dying/decomposing in my walls or cabinets and don't want to risk our dog or cat getting into poison or a poison-killed mouse carcass.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 50calcruiser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Now why are hogs different? They're bigger? Furry? Cute? You can see a family of hogs from little baby hogs all the way up to big grandpa hogs? </div></div>
Give me a break... CUTE... they're anything but "cute". Besides, nobody's offering up a P.E.T.A. pitch for not hunting hogs or anything... Everything that was said was specifically directed at letting hogs out of a trap just for the opportunity to spray 'em with a mini-gun (which ejd kindly removed from this thread and I appreciate).
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 50calcruiser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If you can reason in your head a difference between hogs and any other pest we kill with reckless abandon for no reason other than to protect our homes, families, crops or health (if you don't think hogs pose a real health threat read this
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...-health-nation/ or this
http://nationalhogfarmer.com/health-diseases/feral-swine-pose-disease-risk-1215 or this
http://www.noble.org/ag/wildlife/feralhogs/disease.html) then you are not being honest with yourself, or you have never seen the damage hogs cause first hand. </div></div>
As I've already said twice now, citing the health risks/economic damage aspect of hogs is a moot point in this discussion. Yes they're a health risk, yes they're an economic problem, yes they're a plague and YES they need to be killed. The problem lies in the method that was employed, which I think most everyone who disagreed made explicitly clear in their comments.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: 50calcruiser</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As for shooting hogs out of a trap, if that's what happened in the mini-gun video, well, that is certainly far worse then a European pheasant shoot or a pigeon shoot isn't it? No, those are much more sporting, you dress in your best hunting clothes, shoot fine shotguns, drink the best Scotch and smoke expensive cigars at those events where animals are let out of cages, at close range, one at a time to be shot. </div></div>
You're right, it's not much different and I don't care much for that either, but this isn't about picking apart everything I agree or disagree with. As for whether or not they were actually let out of a trap... that seems pretty obvious to me but yes, I/we could be wrong in that assumption. However, I think ejd would have been pretty quick to correct us in his response if that were the case.
All-in-all, I think the silence was more indicative of a lack of substance in your "argument" than anything else. You claim to make "rational and valid arguments", but all you did here was find a couple similar/tangent subjects to use to skirt around what the real issue was that some of us took offense to. (i.e., trapped hogs being let out in front of a mini-gun.)
I won't drag this out any further cause I'm really not out to <span style="text-decoration: underline">argue</span> about anything and certainly don't expect or care to change your or anyone else's opinion on the matter. Think however you wanna think. I was just stating my point-of-view, as were many others. If you wanna take further silence as a sign of agreement, have at it.