Don't let kids hunt, say animal activists - Audio

Right on JR,everyone i have known over my life has been involved in some way or the other in the outdoors.We all grew up learning to shoot and none of us has turned out bad.I love animals,but that doesn't stop me from going for a hunt,contrary to what the latte quaffing crowd think,kids that are taught proper use of guns and are supervised,don't turn out to be any more prone to animal abuse than kids who don't have anything to do with hunting.To many people sitting on their asses in town,reading and listening to what so called experts say is how we should run our lives.

This is just a bloody joke, I bet a good majority of duck hunters were out there hunting when they were young just like me and just like what is happening today. Why are kids allowed to go and get a burger from McD's but no shoot a duck or an animal? Is it because he and the public use a middle man to practice the harvest that its alright, is it because the ignorant public have cotton wool pulled over their eyes and have know idea that the burger they are eating came from and animal that was breathing and eating a few weeks ago? Or is it just one big F*ing double standard? We know where the majority of problems happen in NZ with kids being brought up wrong so don't bloody pin problems on duck hunters. It pisses me off quite a bit that because the antis pay a a middle man to practice their harvest that hunters are inhumane for doing it their selves. Unless you are vegan, you have no right what so ever to criticize hunting what so ever, and nothing bugs me more..

Of course it's OK to kill animals, humans are an apex species. Get to grip with absolute facts. Perhaps it hasn't occurred to anybody here that animals are just as terrified facing predators in the wild as they are at the end of a gun. @Mike B - they are hypocrites. And I have no tolerance for them, either. Animal lovers and their emotive mentalism are a dangerous force that is in dire need of being curtailed.

@willa You dont need a study you only have to look around you willa. You people have lost track of reality. Mans is a dangerous predator and it is denying reality to claim otherwise. That is why there is so much violence in our society, we are trying to deny it but it keeps breaking through.

@cyril: On which studies are you basing your claims? None I would imagine. Stop sucking stuff out your thumb to support this barbaric practice. And children should be taught to respect life. All life. Not just human life. And that respect includes not killing and maiming living, breathing animals for fun. Fun is riding your bike and playing touch with your friends. Not killing an animal. Get a grip people.

Children who are bought up in a hunting, fishing enviroment are less likely to go off the rails later in life then those who dont. A well known fact.

Its one thing for a human to hunt to survive, its a completely different thing to hunt for fun or pleasure. And for goodness sake...lets not teach the next generation to treat animals badly.

I think the arguments of the animal rights supporters would hold more weight if they approached it in a less aggressive and confrontational manner.
Insulting and verbally attacking hunters is not constructive and makes the animal rights people look like hypocrites. Essentially they are saying that we should respect animals and their rights but they cannot show the same respect for other humans.
Animals are not fluffy little characters in a Disney movie they hunt and kill other animals just as humans do. It is not sick or unnatural for a human to hunt just as it is natural for any animal to do the same.
Perhaps as more evolved animals we could change the way we interact with nature but trying to get people to curb their more basic violent natures by exhibiting the same type of behaviour towards them will never work.

I think hunting should be as it originally was, and that is to proved food for your family.

plz dunt shoot our mommeh an daddey