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How Skyrocketing Gun Sales Are Helping To Conserve Butterflies
Posted on: December 3, 2014 - 4:14pm
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How Skyrocketing Gun Sales Are Helping To Conserve Butterflies
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-skyrocketing-gun-sales-are-helping-to-conserve-butterflies/ Let's see who responds first...
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In the late 1800's, early 1900's when environmentalist groups were first being formed, they were virtually 100% formed by sport hunters. I think it should be obvious that those of us who enjoy spending a large portion of our time out in the wilderness have an invested interest in protecting it. Even today, hunting organizations have done far more to preserve wildlife habitat than any enviro wacko organization. I find it amusing whenever I am talking to a city slicker enviro wacko who thinks that being part of nature means walking a mulched path with a bag of granola and a fanny pack.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
LOL coming from eastern kentucky, and a family of loud and proud, card-carrying NRA deer-hunters, i get that sentiment completely. most of those crunchy granola fuck-os wouldn't survive three days in real wilderness, and we all know it.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
My parents started out being city people then country folk. My dad actually wanted a dairy farm in upstate Pennsylvania. However I ened up in Florida, spening my entire youth in scouts and other outdoor activities. Being surrounded by two oceans, rivers, forests and swamps I became an outdoor person thinking every one did this sort of thing.
I remember going through my first stages of training in the Marines and being able to out shoot the entire platoon because I had learned how to shoot in the Boy Scouts. I remember being able to start a fire with out matches, find cover during a rain storm and even caught a rattlesnake for food. The other guys in the platoon thought I was a god. They were all from the city and had never seen anything but a tree and pigeons at the city park.
I'm a nut when it comes to conservation. I recycle. I save animals.
Based upon my current 5K credit card debt pertaining to firearm purchases and related items I must be a hell of a conservationist. I don't hunt, though. Don't like to kill things.
I never made it past the Cub Scouts. There weren't any real guns to play with so I went AWOL.