Wednesday, October 18, 2006

PETA Blaming School Shootings On "Hunting Culture"

This is pretty much what you'd expect from PETA.

Installing more metal detectors and locking school doors is all well and good, but it’s not enough. Unless our leaders also examine the hunting culture in rural America—where most mass school shootings take place—and its role in these disturbing incidents, little will change.

Oh, it gets worse:

Not everyone who stalks and kills animals will stalk and kill a human. But every person who picks up a gun, aims it at another living being and fires must deaden a piece of his heart. It’s bad enough when adults are the ones pulling the trigger, but we are turning our children into killers as well.

Yep, hunters are heartless murderers. And by teaching our kids to hunt, we are making them the same. Though I'm thinking that the just as many of the school shooting were perpetrated by people who never had contact with hunting. Not that PETA's article gives any stats, but why offer any facts beyond a couple of examples where there contention works.

Couldn't be that the killers were broken in some other way. Just happens a couple of them had participated in hunting. This contention is as weak as blaming violent TV shows or violent video games. Not that they have any real evidence, but they think that the the government should look into the connections.

Nothing like moving your agenda ahead on the deaths of the unfortunate few.

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