Hi Fabrsoman....
I'm not naive at all. I don't assign the class cut-up to the deans list. I assign the legal ethical and responsible hunter to the class of HUNTER. I don't assign the guy trapping foxes illegally the title of hunter, I assign him the title of trespasser, poacher, vandal whatever, but never hunter.
Vandals leaving a gut pile, are not hunters, not ever in my vernacular. Hooligans, animal rightists, and don't you for a minute be so naive to believe that they aren't masquerading on video to cast a bad light on legal harvesters.... as they did in Nova Scotia, for example.
No I'm sorry, you go right ahead and call these guys hunters, we're not going to. It's time to separate the chaff if you want to keep the positive public opinion we still have (57-43) positive.
Words mean things and we have to illustrate the positive against the negative, and HUNTERS are never negative in our world. It's always them other guys that do the deeds... and they is felons, trespassers, poachers, vandals, hooligans, or even possibly animal rightists trying to make an impression of hunters....
Am I an attorney? No, but I'm fighting to keep hunting for my grandchildren and their kids though... how about you?
Aloha...
