Thread: Hunter bashing

Just to give this some context, she is the off sider of Hera Cook, well known anti gun crusader. You might recall old Hera going a bit crazy at the select committee during the buy back debacle when her extremist and unsubstantiated views were challenged. See the profiles here: https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago708948.html

The point being this isn’t necessarily about hunting, probably more an attack on one of the accepted reasons put forward for people having having firearms as they continue their anti gun crusade. They are now just trying to leverage an environmental angle to support their cause. If there is nothing to hunt you don’t need a firearm.

It smacks of academic elitism as it completely overlooks the main reason a large majority of people hunt, to provide food. Like a number of do gooding academics they would rather have people rely on the welfare state than provide for themselves.