Squirrels
WKR
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Moving on from the actual killing of the wolf...
What seems to work so well for the anti-hunters and ARAs is their never-ending energy and willingness to take their offensive (remember that word) to the most effective media sources. I'll give them credit: they may be crazy but they're damned good at pushing their views into mainstream USA. I personally think they're doing a better job of advancing (another word to remember) their cause than we are of defending ours. They're bringing the war to us and to mainstream USA. We're more often playing defense than anything, mainly because we just want to be left alone. At least that's how I view it.
What seems to be missing on our side is an offensive game plan designed to continually hammer back hard at the ARA crowd. If we had as much maniacal energy as they do, we'd be exploiting every piece of their illogical behaviors AND we'd be aggressively advancing our own beliefs. The key to this war is winning the minds of mainstream USA. I don't think we'll get there with a public face of "Go-to-hell....I have a right to hunt!" We DO have the right to hunt, but those rights are getting more and more eroded as public sentiment questions the need to kill certain animals in certain places. What seems missing to me is a 2-pronged approach in which we basically play defense-through-offense, and we logically, tirelessly and steadily advance our causes in ways which make sense and gain the support of those who don't hunt but DO have a say in whether (or not) we keep hunting.
I think the bottom line is winning. One principle is to look at what your enemies are doing and then do it better than them. We're falling short in that regard I believe.
Well put. Their energy and efforts are admirable. I think most of us that defend hunting fall into the conservative realm, where as I think most of the oppositioin falls into the liberal realm. I'll speak more specifically about myself in the next couple lines. I, a conservative, don't have time to make calls, pen letters, attend rallies, and those sorts of things; like the opposition does in most cases. It is a a matter of priority, not that hunting is not important to me, but getting up everyone morning, going to work to provide for the wife and children God has blessed me with ranks much higher in terms of priority. So then when I am not at work I enjoy spending time with that same family, hunting when have the opportunity. Not to mention the other outside work activities that take up time that I must do as a RESPONSIBLE, PRODUCTIVE member of society. In summary, my views are different than theirs. I don't hate them for that although I disagree with them on almost every thing imaginable. Their fruitcakes at best but they are still people. People I'd be willing to help pack and move to another country.