Actually, letting this anti's letter get printed might be a good thing. To any rational reader it highlights the warped mentality and lack of knowledge of the writer. And kudos to Wayne LaRoche for taking this great opportunity to respond with an intelligent and educational reply.

what these people don't understand is that those hunters they would be hunting shoot back and probably shoot far better than they do! i say sell those tags and let's figure it all out there and not in town. load up!

Give the anti's enough rope, and they'll eventually hang themselves (pun intended). Their argument is based purely on emotion, while LaRoche's op-ed was reasoned and supported with research. This self-righteous idiot actually did hunters a big favor.

I would have no issue with the animal rights groups if they just would deal with the abuse and overpopulation of domesticated animals. The problem I personally have when the Antis talk about wildlife is they are driven by emotion and feelings instead of science and research and that leads to hate, which is never good and always misdirected. I would gladly donate to the Humane Society if their mission statment didn't state that they wanted to end all forms of hunting.

Hmmm, an anti hunter supporting hunting humans? Seems kind of ironic to me.

I find it amazing how they can be so against killing of animals but for that of people.....can't say how many "hunt the wolf hunters" remarks I have received, and "I love hunting accidents" is another of their favorite lines...

The irony is so thick you couldn't shoot a 30.06 through it.

The personification of animals is more important to them than the well-being of fellow human beings. Yet with all their 'love' for animals they can't point to very many things they have ever done to help non-domesticated animals or their habitat, or conservation.

The irony thickens as they ride off into the sunset in their Priuses. It's nice to know they are saving the world......

If they only had a f****** clue.

Vegitarianism should be considered a religion, and an oppressive and irrational one at that, one one considers how so many vegans insist on imposing their prejudice on others and continually lobby to impose their opinions on others no so minded. The person who wrote the antihunting bit suggesting permits be issued for hunting hunters is likely some chippie from the university in Burlington, who should be focussing on her education, but instead wastes her parents money flogging her half baked dogma. (I say She because most of the Ditsey headed protein starved militant vegans I've met were emaciated female college students, call it profiling) I have met such types who would impose their dietary preferences on their pet cats! You wanna see an unhappy kitty, see one condemned to Veganism by their demented keeper! Such delusional people live in little Disneylands in their own heads and really ought to have such suicidal notions dispelled.

The logic of the anti-hunters goes against nature.

A Moose when feeling threatened will charge you and stomp your guts in the ground because it's in his best interest.

A cougar will attack a hiker because it feels it's easy prey and it's in his best interest

A bear will attack and eat you if you come between its cubs or food source because it's in its best interests

Hunters will harvest game and use the meat to sustain themselves and their families because it's in their best interest.

And if someone puts myself or my family in great bodily harm I will shoot them because it's in our best interest

This is the way of nature.

That letter reminds me of the "BUY LOCAL" bumper sticker I saw on a foreign car.

As upsetting as it is to read this, I feel sorry for the person who wrote that letter. They've never heard the sounds of the forest stirring to life, felt the crunch of the leaves underneath their boots, or viewed these beautiful animals in their natural environment. vermontbuckhunters hit it on the head- just one day in the woods can do wonders for the soul and can change someone's opinions on hunters.

The writer of this reply by the nssf seems to have a very childish attitude and also makes him/her out to be the best player on our team by acting out with words in such a simple" death to all hunters!" approach

what bothers me is the fact that so few people give us hunters a bad name. The solution to this problem is not sparking back in anger but to spread the idea of hunting as a time for hunters to enjoy themselves in the woods we don't have 2 harvest a deer to have fun.

Vegitarians,I can't stand e'm and their anti-hunting theories!PETA and all their little imitators should go off and protest the actual crimes and leave the great American sporting traditions,the ones in American feilds and streams,to hunt and fish without worry of vegan protest!