In Addition To Dead People, Guns Kill Our Most Sacred Belonging
Forget everything you know about hunting, and just consider suffering itself
Roaring Rivers
Unpopular Strong Opinions by Christyl Rivers
Guns are a deadly thing in America, also, in the woods
Please spare me about how all hunting men are conservationists. Some are. Some are not. What we do know is that we cannot sustain eight billion people all hunting, or over-harvesting, as it is more accurately called.
(And, yes, factory farming and ranching, have even more enormous costs. There are many articles about that out there, already. Ironically, hunters often hit the drive-thru for a planet-busting burger.)
So, let’s just talk about one topic, a goose.
Suffering happens when you wound someone. It is when the animal, or the habitat, is hurt by preventable actions.
We are birders. We watched a goose trying to land with her flock. There was an injury to her wing. One expert told us it was probably ‘duck shot.’ It is likely that a hunter shot her and missed — mistook the winging goose for a duck.