Ways to Beat a Dead Horse

This is a sorta continuation/correction of my last blog, so read it before this one please. Now on to business...

In my last blog I talked about my absolute hatred of the 2nd Amendment. It's out of date, and so far beyond use that it should be destroyed. I then went on to outline my new gun laws, basically stating that hand guns were the only things to be allowed in a residential area (Properly registered handguns while we are on the subject). I continued on to the subject of hunting, and created a storage system for rifles and hunting equipment that was to be run by the government. I'm not going to retread all of my steps here, so if you want details just hop down a level.

What I would like to do is formally recant my statement on rifles and non handguns. I wrote that section of article as if I were for the sport of hunting, but surprise surprise, I'm not.

Hunting should not be a sport in my opinion. Many many years ago hunting was the only way to receive food, but we don't need to hunt for our food any more. Thanks to large farms, we now have all the meat we need at our finger tips, and no longer need to go hunt for animals for dinner. Hunting is just putting an unnecessary end to the lives of more animals, for the enjoyment of it.

Hunters argue that hunting keeps the population of animals down, due to the fact that things like deer have few natural predators any more. The only animals that really hunt deer are the: bear, cougar, and wolf. In most areas of the states none of those animals are prevelant. Why is that one might ask? Over hunting. Over hunting got us into this mess, and now hunters appear to be the only answer... but they are not.

The Darwinian principal of survival of the fittest states that whichever organism is most fit is going to live to produce more offspring. Said offspring will be stronger like their fathers and so on and so forth until you have uber-deer. So let's say we let the deer population go sky rocketing like it initially would without hunting... What happens?

Increased deer population means more deer fighting for the same resources, and sadly many deer will die. For a few years the deer population will be changing like crazy, but alas an equilibrium will be hit at which deer produce fewer offspring, thus fewer deer die.

You might be thinking "Kegan you can't prove this!" but alas poor Watson, I can. The concept of equilibrium within nature isn't hard to grasp. If you travel to any untouched natural area you will quickly notice that animals such as the lion have no natural predators. So what keeps the lion population down? The answer is not hunters, but nature itself. There are few lions because all the lions born in one area have to compete for the same resources, and those that can't get them die.

Yes, lions do in fact eat meat rather than vegetation, but the core concept is the same. Depending on the environment only a certain number of deer can live, and eventually they will figure it out themselves. The thought that we need hunting to solve what hunting caused is preposterous, thus I say down with the sport.

Because of my anti-hunting stance, I now have no reason to keep my non-handgun storage system in play, thus dash the idea now. Rather I recommend all household non-handgun weapons be destroyed, and melted down to make something else. A statue to me is just one idea, but this recycled material can make much much more.

So yes I am anti-gun, and I am anti-hunting... NRA eat your hearts out, because I'm coming after you next.