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In reply to the discussion: Comedian Jay Leggett dies after killing deer [View all]Logical
(22,457 posts)331. So you need a gun? How brave. n-t
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If he had parked that ATV years ago and trudged around on foot, maybe, just maybe his ticker....
Brother Buzz
Nov 2013
#1
What the hell is with the "natural causes" bullcrap? That's from the days when we didnt
rhett o rick
Nov 2013
#177
Well my bridge game is decent. Does that count? Have you heard of JAQing off?
rhett o rick
Nov 2013
#288
I generally ask people who believe in karma to explain Dick Cheney to me.
mattclearing
Nov 2013
#356
lol. yep. good point. and a lot easier to express than that ramble post i made last night/thanks/eom
orleans
Nov 2013
#377
your post was perfect. as someone who has heard "it was god's will", karma or
bettyellen
Nov 2013
#383
lots of people blamed my Mom when her two daughters were hit by a drunk driver crossing the street.
bettyellen
Nov 2013
#317
I am SO sick of this shit. It is the same as "The Secret" and all that prosperity gospel crap.
bettyellen
Nov 2013
#328
what you (and others) say about "karma" causing anyone's personal tragedy is cruel
bettyellen
Nov 2013
#379
it is embarrassingly ignorant to think a random car accident happened because of "karma"
bettyellen
Nov 2013
#381
No, I didn't say that terrible things only happen to people who deserve it.
hamsterjill
Nov 2013
#366
Plants don't feel pain? The next time you harvest from a plant, pay attention to what
bluestate10
Nov 2013
#350
Not the same thing. Huge difference as explained so many times in this thread
darkangel218
Nov 2013
#83
the condemnation is directed at the enjoyment and entertainment one may receive from killing
LanternWaste
Nov 2013
#274
I eat chicken for nutritional purposes. I would never go out and kill a chicken for the "thrill".
darkangel218
Nov 2013
#42
Hunting is far more humane than what the factory farms do to the chicken you eat
PeaceNikki
Nov 2013
#84
Here's the thing, sweetheart. Even hunters who 'hunt for the thrill' either eat the meat or donate
PeaceNikki
Nov 2013
#91
No, " swearheart". You ",get off off your high horse" and quit telling other people
darkangel218
Nov 2013
#99
Yeah, *I'M* the one who 'can't deal'. lol. Go stuff some more factory farmed chicken in your piehole
PeaceNikki
Nov 2013
#103
I hear you. I mean, if a person is a vegetarian or vegan and condemns meat eaters, I *GET IT*.
PeaceNikki
Nov 2013
#174
Where I come from, nearly every boy and man (and a TON of women) are hunters.
Sheldon Cooper
Nov 2013
#181
The "thrill" of doing a job professionally. There is a thrill in that, no matter what you are
MADem
Nov 2013
#189
Other opinions? You can eat meat that some Jamaican guy on a minimum wage work visa slaughters,
MADem
Nov 2013
#130
I'm a hunter,... have been since I was 9,.... you are not a hunter...so......
NM_Birder
Nov 2013
#197
The ceremony and enjoyment are part of the hunt for food. Has been that way for thousands of years.
Ed Suspicious
Nov 2013
#338
Yes, Pennsylvania is the heart of big game country and a beacon of wildlife management...
Drahthaardogs
Nov 2013
#229
There WAS no management in the 50's. Populations crashed in ten years. I grew up in the west.
Drahthaardogs
Nov 2013
#367
My husband hunted (we're originally from WI/MI) every year. As do many
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#119
As I said above, what does it matter "why" the animal was killed. Hell, I slaughtered for money
Drahthaardogs
Nov 2013
#200
If you believe that Ted Nugent represents "most hunters", then you also likely believe that ...
11 Bravo
Nov 2013
#228
The beaks of chicken are often removed in factory farms to reduce the excessive
PeaceNikki
Nov 2013
#196
You're damned right they are, and if you screw it up, you cut off their tongues.
Drahthaardogs
Nov 2013
#236
I enjoy the thrill as well. My emotions aren't focused on squeezing the trigger...
Eleanors38
Nov 2013
#296
Most hunters do not hunt for food. They hunt as a hobby and then eat it as a side note. b-t
Logical
Nov 2013
#254
Ask this question to any hunter. If someone gave you the deer meat, all you needed....
Logical
Nov 2013
#332
And I have spent the past 41 years living among blue collar midwesterners. The working class
PeaceNikki
Nov 2013
#319
Eating meat and not supporting recreational hunting are two complete different things.
darkangel218
Nov 2013
#47
I keep going on and on about you claiming the innocence of a deer to be more important
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#139
I kept explaining to you that i have to problem with hunting for food, as long as is not for sport,
darkangel218
Nov 2013
#146
You made up a story because your grandmother wasn't "sacrificing" animals
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#157
That might be your experience here in Texas, but my next door neighbors voted for
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#297
You should pay a visit to a processing plant where your store-bought chicken comes from.
cyberswede
Nov 2013
#120
I'm sorry, I couldn't understand you. Must be all that meat in your mouth.
Comrade Grumpy
Nov 2013
#136
If you believe hunting is for 'entertainment' then you really don't know much about
Jenoch
Nov 2013
#233
Eating is absolutely necessary. Eating free range deer sounds good to me. Eating feed lot cattle
Ed Suspicious
Nov 2013
#333
Seems like some folks prefer to have others kill their food for them, not sure
The Straight Story
Nov 2013
#6
Services for the deer and the hunter were held at the Soylent Corporation Funeral Home.
hunter
Nov 2013
#37
It only would have been karma if a bunch of deer surrounded him and stomped him to death, and then
MADem
Nov 2013
#70
that's some "hunting". u dress like a bush, sit on your ass covered in doe piss wiaitng for
leftyohiolib
Nov 2013
#112
I can honestly say my husband never bought a bottle of "doe piss," nor did he
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#218
Not everyone eats their kill. Many kill wolves, bears, racoons, you name it.
darkangel218
Nov 2013
#170
Actually, that isn't so in the Great Lakes region. Most hunting that I grew up with
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#173
I don't mean directly alongside the freeway. When the leaves fall, you can see back quite a ways.
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#178
It said, "The victim returned to the cabin." Uhh, the victim was strapped to the ATV.
Agnosticsherbet
Nov 2013
#192
I have no problem with shooting deer or even endangered animals, as long as there's a challenge.
DisgustipatedinCA
Nov 2013
#247
As I got older, killing animals for fun seemed cruel. Some people never get there. n-t
Logical
Nov 2013
#255
Sorry, I don't like killing animals. If you do then congrats. Should be proud. n-t
Logical
Nov 2013
#265
While not my thing, hunting for food is fine. Training to hunt or shoot humans, not so much.
Hoyt
Nov 2013
#276
all i wanna know, was the deer worth it? a big doe? 6 pt buck? WI wants to know.
pansypoo53219
Nov 2013
#354
It happens every year on DU during hunting season. Hunter dies, (some of) DU cheers
PeaceNikki
Nov 2013
#361