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What is the NRA up to these days?

Belz... said:
I think it's just a relic of a time where killing a deer or a bear was quite a feat for a hunter, and you wanted to show that you had done it by wearing claws or some other part of the animal. Of course you'd _also_ eat it and make it into clothes, so there was quite the utilitarian value; but at least I could understand the status brought with having killed one of those on your own.

Nowadays, however, doing that is so trivial that it looks more like vanity than accomplishment. Boring vanity, at that.
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There was a memorable scene in the early days of the new X-Men back in the 1970s in which Wolverine mentioned that he was eager to go out in the woods and do some hunting. Storm expressed horror that he would kill an animal just for sport instead of for food.
"I said hunting. I didn't say anything about killing. It takes no skill to kill. What takes skill is stalking a skittish doe until you can get close enough to touch her."
It was all about challenging himself and testing his skills against nature. No killing required.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
The killing in self-defence or the eating part?
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Yeah...I just gave that comment by Ziggurat the reponse it deserved. Trying to shoe horn a faux verisimilitude between swatting a spider or a cockroach and the purposeful stalking and shooting of an elephant for nothing more than vanity is oh...so much the same thing.
 
Also, I am going to preempt his attempt to say that he was responding to dudalb's comment...well...maybe he needs to look up the role of hyperbole as a rhetorical device.
 
I so hope the NRA will soon stand for Not Relevant Anymore. Their baleful influence in politics has contributed so much to America's grotesque uniqueness in slaughter by gunfire.
 
Lurch said:
I so hope the NRA will soon stand for Not Relevant Anymore. Their baleful influence in politics has contributed so much to America's grotesque uniqueness in slaughter by gunfire.
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The NRA reminds me of the GOP: they both started out with good ideas and decent people but devolved into a corrupt and harmful to society organization.
 
Susheel said:
Yeah...I just gave that comment by Ziggurat the reponse it deserved. Trying to shoe horn a faux verisimilitude between swatting a spider or a cockroach and the purposeful stalking and shooting of an elephant for nothing more than vanity is oh...so much the same thing.
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Clearly you've never had to deal with an elephant in your living room after some inconsiderate jerk left he screen door open again. :rolleyes:
 
Susheel said:
Yeah...I just gave that comment by Ziggurat the reponse it deserved. Trying to shoe horn a faux verisimilitude between swatting a spider or a cockroach and the purposeful stalking and shooting of an elephant for nothing more than vanity is oh...so much the same thing.
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Dude. I made a joke about eating spiders, a joke made possible by literal interpretation of a statement obviously not intended to be taken so literally. If you thought it was meant to be anything more than a joke, well, go eat some spiders.
 
Ziggurat said:
Dude. I made a joke about eating spiders, a joke made possible by literal interpretation of a statement obviously not intended to be taken so literally. If you thought it was meant to be anything more than a joke, well, go eat some spiders.
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Well you body of work here has not been conducive to that conclusion. Sorry, that I mistook it for your usual knee jerk contrarianism.
 
dudalb said:
A lot of my fellow gun owners have had it with the NRA because of the wackjob rhetoric, and they don't represent gun owners, but gun manafactues.
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Do they know about and also resent all the money going to top of the organization as they have pilfered for their personal million dollar habits?
 
Susheel said:
Well considering I am from India....no, not an elephant....how about monkeys (twice), palm civet (once).
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[OT] Here the worst we get is an unknown cat, a rare fox (the usually keep away from the house), a badger once and an occasional curious Corvid.
 
dudalb said:
I am a gun owner and I hunt occasionallly, (Mainly ducks) and I have never gotten the appeal of trophy hunting. I think if you kill something and it's not in self defese, you should eat it.
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It is the whole killing things is fun and funny, like when they go shooting prairie dogs with high powered rifles to watch them blow up.
 
ponderingturtle said:
It is the whole killing things is fun and funny, like when they go shooting prairie dogs with high powered rifles to watch them blow up.
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The real sadists often gravitate to feral hog hunting. They are an invasive species in the US and often there are very few, if any, restrictions that usually come with hunting managed game as mass slaughter is the intended goal. There's quite the community of bloodthirsty freaks getting their kicks mowing down these animals in the most gratuitous ways imaginable.

Ted Nugent famously claims he killed nearly 500 animals using a door mounted machine gun off the side of a helicopter in Texas in a single outing.

Not to say that culling these animals isn't the right thing to do, but people who enjoy the mass slaughter are deeply diseased.
 
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