Randy Hoskins” letter Jan. 12 stated that killing was just shooting something dead and just leaving it, but that hunting was “harvesting.” To relate harvesting to hunting is merely an attempt to justify killing and to make it a good thing.
According to Webster”s dictionary, hunting is killing. “Kill” is defined as “something killed: as an animal shot in a hunt; To deprive of life.” Even the word harvest uses the words “kill” and “hunt” in the definition.
It seems to me a [game] warden”s best strategy is knowing a poacher”s sneaky methods and that hunters sometimes take more than the limit is most important. A warden, a protector, does not need hands-on experience of killing, of experiencing and knowing whether a head shot or a heart shot or which gun or bow is quickest to avoid an animals” suffering. That a warden organizes hunts, then maybe their title should not be “warden”.
Just as the experience of actually killing does not make a warden a good one, neither does killing make a criminal good. They don”t need to know of the “thrill.” They are required to protect the animals. Surely the hunters who carry a Bible know that Genesis tells us animals were created so man would not be lonely not for food. I totally disagree that hunting is a sport. As Paul Rodriguez is quoted as saying at www.quotegarden.com, “Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they”re in the game.” and William Gilbert is quoted with “Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.”
How truly sad the Bible is so misunderstood. Christians know God also created animals and that “Thou shalt not kill” also includes the animals.
Danielle Holliday
Kelseyville
