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09-17-2007 | 10:26 AM

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RE: Response from MD Professor Bashing Bow Article

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ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer

If you haven't read this, this is where this was originated. http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2317082

From this yahoo after I chastised him for his pathetic article:

[/align][blockquote]=Dear Mr. Poorman,
[/align] Please excuse the tardiness of my reply. I honestly had no clue that my Op-Ed piece would receive this level of attention -- worldwide now. It is beyond my wildest dreams. I have received an enormous number of emails that I am trying to respond to individually, while working my full-time job, too.

I'm not exactly sure of how to respond to your definition of me, but I do have a request if you don't mind? Would you consider becoming a member of the NRA like I am, or consider re-upping your membership if you already are one? While they are misguided on the sport hunting issues as I see it, they are strong supporters of the 2nd Amendment and we can use all the help we can get there, don't you think? Thanks, Joe Lamp

My response:

Dear Mr. Lamp
[/align]If you are a member of the NRA as you claim and still consider bowhunting in the light that you do than I have less respect for you than I did previously. I find it appalling that another "sportsman" would degrade another's choice of weaponry to further gain in their agenda.
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[/align]Are you a hunter or just a gun owner? I would love to say more however, that last question needs answered first before I go on and tell you of the horrors that I have seen on whitetails due to guns, NOT BOWS yet I fully support gun seasons throughout the United States.
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[/align]Rob Poorman
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Rob,
I’m sorry, but I think you made a classic mistake in your argument. First of all, I’m not convinced that this guy belongs to the NRA at all, and this was a tactic that he used to lure you in, and it seemed like it worked. By adding the little NRA tidbit he was able to shiftthe focus away from defending bow hunting, to you “the hunter” denouncing gun hunting with an assertion (a generalized statement with no supporting data), which you may know is used in many forms of marketing and propaganda to sway the opinion of the public.
To sum it up, your response seems to make all forms of hunting look bad, or worse, and did nothing to dispute his allegations. Sorry, but your words need to be chosen with a little more creativity. He played you, and he seemed to do it well.
KP

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