Hunters Once Again Getting A Bad Rap

Fairfield, Connecticut has an overgrown deer population, with some estimates as high as 75 deer per square mile. The Fairfield Conservation Commission wants to begin allowing hunting on public lands to cull the herd. That doesn’t sit very well with those animal advocates who don’t believe in killing animals. No surprise there.

In an article in the Connecticut Post, from the animal lovers and protectors we can read all the same usual unsubstantiated horse manure about why hunting is not the answer to the problem – deer don’t cause Lyme disease, hunting deer causes the reproductive rate to increase resulting in even more deer, yada, yada, yada.

But this one person, Debbie Lake, a resident of Fairfield said this about hunters:

[hunters] “are going to wind up killing dogs or kids, or anything,”

I would comfortably say that this is a classic example of fear mongering. But what is just as maddening is that the reporter never once questions any of these bold statements, especially one that accuses hunters as being some kind of domestic terrorist, caring for nothing but a kill and willing to take out dogs, kids or “anything”, whatever that is supposed to mean.