[fabsroman]

Rattus, you should be an attorney with the swing you are trying to put on this.

Should I assume that it was a Greenpeace or PETA representative that left a gut pile in the farmer's spring house on one of the farm's I hunt on, and that they were also guilty of stealing 5 gallons of wine out of that spring house while they were gutting their deer in it?

Maybe I should blame those same representatives for trapping 12 foxes on that property without the owner's permission, clubbing them over the head, skinning them, and leaving them in a bush for the farm owner to find.

How about the story I read where 100+ dead wild waterfowl were found in a ditch. That was probably one of their representatives too.

I've been around for 36 years, which is long enough to learn that people in general are to blame. There are good and bad people in every line of work and hobby. There are good bike racers that give way when I scream that I am coming up on the inside, and then there are those that slide over to intentionally block me and then complain when I do the same to them. There are attorneys that lie, steal, and cheat, just like there are doctors, contractors, police officers, etc. that do so too.

In the end, I think the number of good people out there far out number the bad ones, hunters included. It is the few bad ones that give a bad name to the entire category.

Now, you can continue to think that this is some great conspiracy theory by Greenpeace or PETA, but I'm sure that if it were they would have had the local news agencies there to put it in the news and reach as many people as possible.

Honestly, you must be pretty naive to think that every hunter out there is a good person, and/or you just haven't met many hunters out in Hawaii, and/or Hawaii just has a lot more nice/honest people than the continental US and you haven't met any bad people yet.

Usually, it all amounts to good and bad. A good attorney will be a good hunter, will be a good friend, etc. On the other hand, a bad person will be a bad attorney, a bad hunter, a bad friend, etc.