ORIGINAL: Arthur P

Not high enough to justify in THEIR minds??? Hunting in ANY form, with any harvest percentage, is not justified in their minds. If they had any real concern about keeping animals alive, then they should look more favorably on bow hunting because if it's low success rate when compared to gun hunters. No, that's not the numbers game they're playing. They're going after bowhunting because of the number of bowhunters compared to the number of gun hunters. That's the reason they're going after us. If they can topple us, then that will make it easier to knock over gun hunting.

Liberal judges, ShadowAce? I'd say liberal activist judges, actually. They're boils on society's arse, for certain. But, just like the anti's themselves, they're nothing more than a symptom of the social rot that's afflicting this country. Look at gay marriage, for instance. It's common sense that marriage is between a man and a woman. Because of liberal activist judges, that's not the case any more. Now we have to write laws and make Constitutional amendments to mandate what used to be common sense.

These anti's are people who have lost all contact with common sense and feel some misguided need to take action - even going so far as resorting to terrorism - to force everyone else to abandon common sense as well. Red Hawk says he respects their opinion, even though he thinks the opinion is 'silly'. The problem with them is, they do NOT respect anybody else's opinion. In fact, they have nothing but contempt for differing opinions. They're despicable antisocial degenerants as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately, they're well financed and well organized despicable antisocial degenerants.

Organization... There's a laugh. They've been consolidating their power bases over the past decade while we... What have WE been doing? Pope and Young Club was the voice of bowhunters for many years. Hardly anybody shows the slightest bit of respect for P&Y now, because so many so-called bowhunters don't respect P&Y. In fact, most bowhunters won't even support their state bowhunting organizations, for some petty reason or other. In other words, bowhunters are a disorganized mob with no central lobbying agency and no political clout.

We bowhunters are our own worst enemy. When the battle is joined, we'll be going into it completely unarmed. That's what you need to be afraid of, ShadowAce. Not the anti's, not liberal activist judges. It's our own stupidity that you need to fear.