As a youngster, I hated hunting so much, any Liberal would have been proud of me. Growing up in Texas, I did not openly display my distaste for hunting, as I would have been shunned as a Liberal :)

I still don’t like hunting. I would much rather shoot wildlife with my camera than a gun. I don’t even own a gun. Still, I understand nature enough that we need predators to keep animal population under control. I have seen overpopulated deer starve to death by the thousands. Humans are deer’s main predators, since we have killed most of the natural predators.

I would prefer that hunters eat what they kill. Hunting just to kill something bothers me. I don’t like killing animals for no reason. Killing an animal for food is a good reason. Killing an animal to hunt it on a wall is not a good reason.