hope her parents are really proud

[PATRIOT73]

I have no issue with someone killing what they are going to eat; that is nature's food chain. We nearly all do it, just most of us get someone else to do the actual killing for us. Arguable if it is better to have a life in the wild and end up on a plate or to live your whole life in captivity and end up the same way.

Culling for conservation reasons can also be justified, but using a 14 year old girl to do it and taking such obvious delight in the killing does not seem like conservation to me.

I don't understand those who take pleasure from killing or inflicting suffering for fun (often claiming it is 'sport'). They do exist though but we are not allowed to cull them to enhance (conserve) our species.

exactly mel

[tony41]

Agree 110%. Unfortunately, there's a huge gun nutter faction here in the U.S., wish we could hunt them for sport and see how they like it...

Best wishes for many sales to all,

What an excellent idea!!!

These nutters are not confined to the USA. We in UK have idiots who think it is a good idea to chase foxes and other animals to exhaustion with dogs which then rip them apart.
We also have others who rear pheasantsand release them so they can be shot. OK, you might say but these people also feel the need to kill protected birds of prey who might take a few of these specially reared birds. Unbelievable.

[terry5732]

It's so much prettier at McDonalds

[burgyeb]

Not able to view the link pics but read the text. What some view as cruelty others view as sport. Not personally interested in sports or hunting. Although I used to love to fish, and I always cleaned and cooked my own fish.Seems the hunter instinct is prevalant in USA, UK, and other places throughout the world. Do not recall any links, videos, or pics posted to forums about fox chases, pheasant hunts, or the likes.Also, all who own guns do not hunt, nor are they all nutters. Many who own guns do so as their right to bare arms.What does this particular 19 year old womans hunter prowess have to do with slavery or colonialism or am I missing the point. As for Mickee D, I am clueless.

[suesjools]

What an excellent idea!!!

These nutters are not confined to the USA. We in UK have idiots who think it is a good idea to chase foxes and other animals to exhaustion with dogs which then rip them apart.
We also have others who rear pheasantsand release them so they can be shot. OK, you might say but these people also feel the need to kill protected birds of prey who might take a few of these specially reared birds. Unbelievable.

Wow, that shooting protected species business is really nutty and here I thought we had a monopoly on that. I stand corrected...

I believe unless you're raising animals for food or killing them to use the meat, skin, etc., (as the Native Americans did) that hunting is just plain wrong. Of course I also believe in gun control, which I'm fully aware puts me in a minority on this side of the pond, but when I see the tragedies that can result from lack of gun control laws, (tragedies I don't see occurring on a semi-regular basis in the UK or other countries with such laws), I question how anyone could feel differently.

Just my 2 cents...

Best wishes for many sales to all,

[astral276]

Many who own guns do so as their right to bare arms.

Couldn't they just wear a T-shirt?

[squern]

Not able to view the link pics but read the text. What some view as cruelty others view as sport. Not personally interested in sports or hunting. Although I used to love to fish, and I always cleaned and cooked my own fish.Seems the hunter instinct is prevalant in USA, UK, and other places throughout the world. Do not recall any links, videos, or pics posted to forums about fox chases, pheasant hunts, or the likes.Also, all who own guns do not hunt, nor are they all nutters. Many who own guns do so as their right to bare arms.What does this particular 19 year old womans hunter prowess have to do with slavery or colonialism or am I missing the point. As for Mickee D, I am clueless.

I think the point was that attitudes change (in some places), and what was considered ok once isn't any more.

I also think that colonialism wasn't all bad.
Was it bad for Australia and New Zealand? And who would argue that life in parts of Africa is now better for the people who live there?

Colonialism doesn't necessarily equate with exploitation.

[sherlock07]

I also do not hold with hunting animals for sport.

This thread as moved on to guns, whilst I do not see why a private person should hold a gun, can I just point out that in the original picture she has a bow and arrows.

[Gill]

Being an animal lover I've looked closely at those pics and I believe they are 'staged' for the final photographs by using a tranquiliser dart. I believe these darts will immobilise a wild animal long enough to take a so called, 'aren't I clever' type pic.

[cambrensis]

Couldn't they just wear a T-shirt?

Well said! If they are not smart enough to spell it they are not smart enough to do it!