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In reply to the discussion: Are you cool with rural folks' hunting guns? [View all]cynatnite
(31,011 posts)28. Where in the hell do you live at to have such a WRONG idea about "rural folks"?
I just don't know where to start.
My Dad, a diehard Dem, was a rural type. He did duck hunting and deer on occasion. He preferred duck because it tasted good and there was always plenty of game.
Many rural families rely on hunting for food. Years ago, while living in Montana, we relied on deer to feed us through the winter months. We were both going to college and raising children. Money was very hard to come by in those days.
In the rural areas I have lived in we rarely had a problem with people from cities "invading" the countryside. Perhaps wherever you live you might have that issue.
Hunting is a way of life for a lot of families and your view of it is very far off the mark.
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I'm 30 miles from the store, in the middle of the National Forest, with bear, elk, salmon
Coyotl
Feb 2013
#15
I am about the same. No subsistence hunters left in most of CA due to bad laws
ProgressiveProfessor
Feb 2013
#18
Subsistence hunting was VERY common in California during the Great Depression
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#19
Where in the hell do you live at to have such a WRONG idea about "rural folks"?
cynatnite
Feb 2013
#28
I hunt and fish for subsistence, garden and farmed too, forage, foray, etc. in rural USA, elsewhere
Coyotl
Feb 2013
#35
Misleadingly facile. There's no division of rifles and shotguns into "hunting" and "non-hunting"
Recursion
Feb 2013
#9
Vastly more relevant than Grandpa's duck gun, Grandpa is not part of the problem
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#12
A little hot sauce and a matching wine does wonders, even for the gamiest meat.
leveymg
Feb 2013
#34
We need to move away from the NRA second amendment neighborhood nuclear superiority
Agnosticsherbet
Feb 2013
#30