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I grew up as a hunter and the area I grew up in was about 75% hunters, yet we're all pissed off about this and here's why. This man illegally killed an animal. My own personal issue with trophy hunting aside, when someone poaches an animal, they are stealing. They stole a life, they're stealing from those who are hunting legally. They are stealing from the local economy and it leads to even more laws, rules and regulations (and costs for licenses).
Poachers are thieves, and as such, he should be punished accordingly.
Interesting that many on the right want to make a black youth accountable for stealing, but want to give this man a free pass.
I do find it interesting that if I wanted to satisfy a blood lust by hunting down and killing another human, I would be called a sociopath and put in jail, but if I wanted to do the same to animal, just for the thrill of the kill and not to protect or sustain, it would be ok (as long as I had the proper license ;-))
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