Thank you, Andrew Greeley, for hitting it right on the head about the hunting of helpless animals with high-powered weapons and calling it a sport. These so-called sportsmen are nothing more than murderers who want to prove their manhood.
From the
Chicago Sun-Times, fourth letter down. The article the writer was praising
appears here.
Look at all the prejudicial assumptions the "Reverend" Greeley makes about hunters and fishermen:
A fisherman holds up his catch to be admired and photographed, usually with a stupid smile of pride on his face and a can of beer in his hand.
Yuk, yuk--what a hick! Or how about this?
Better that they kill small animals than other human beings, much less their spouse and children.
Yeah--we see
that happening all the time with these sick psycho morons. (Andrew--
when?)
Or consider:
Maybe human males are less likely to engage in drunken barroom brawls if they have knocked off earlier in the day a covey of birds or a family of deer or triumphed over a fighting muskie.
Y'know, now that you mention it, I haven't killed anything yet today, and by golly, I
DO feel like kicking someone's ass...
Yes, Andrew, we pull the wings off flies and step on lines of ants, just to sate our blood lust. Or how about:
[Th]e toll of sportsmen killed by other sportsmen every year shows just how eager the men with guns are to pull the trigger.
Damn straight. We shoot the hell out of each other in the woods and--what's that?
Two hunting fatalities in all of Texas last year? Nationally,
over 473 times as many injuries are sustained playing football? And what's this?
I'm not a vegetarian...
No, Andrew, you're not. Let me tell you what you are.
Oh, wait.
I already did. And you didn't have the guts or the intellect to respond.
[Thanks to HZ for calling the letter to my attention]
