Deer Hunters, Gays, and Dads: LCD

I'm prepared and willing to piss off a few thousand neighbors today by spewing all over their personal religion: Deer Hunting.
  After a lifetime of passing on the Golden Rule and similar social guidelines that originated in the Bible, I was transplanted here to West Virginia from Baltimore as a veteran & grandfather and was immediately appalled by the mindless acceptance of deer hunting as a locally-normal activity.

  Is there anyone here who doesn't get that hunting is a penis competition?
There is not a single moment of  honest "sport" in punching holes into an animal who is more docile than your Beagle, and whose only crime was being thirsty enough to walk to the stream for a drink.
  ...and where is the sport in 'hunting' for an animal that walks in front of traffic?

 Need I touch on the grotesque stories of drunken hunters who actually Rape their prey as it lays on the ground dying?  I think not, but your local DNR can confirm it.

My gun is bigger than your gun. Yep, it really is that simple.  This is the statement made to fellow hunters, to all women, and to the mistakenly-labeled "lesser" animals being hunted.
  The only sane humans who are so obviously obsessed with their genitalia are Toddlers.

     Many of my neighbors argue that hunting is a "tradition" for them and they are simply doing as they were taught, and passing a family tradition on to the next generations.
    That's easy enough to see, even for an outsider looking in. I respect tradition.
 
  A great many equally-popular local family traditions are being passed on as we speak; Incest, spousal abuse, child abuse and neglect, alcoholism, and drunk driving, just to name a few.

  Men are pulled into hunting for a variety of personal reasons, the most prominent of them being the need to prove to his peers that he is not gay, a rather intense motivating factor in any public school.
 Most fall into it for the same reason that so many listen to country music:
 1: A geographic anomaly.
 2: Because someone (Dad) made them feel that they had no choice ("Be a Man!"), and for those lucky enough to slide past Dad's influence with the illusion that they had made their own choices, there was always high school waiting to pick up the slack in pressure.

 So, the LCD* seems to be insecurity...which brings us right back to the penis issue, doesn't it?

 *LCD= Lowest Common Denominator, a term us old-schoolers were required to learn way back before schools began watering-down education to insure that every child will pass and thus maximize federal funding.

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