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David Knotts, executive vice president of the Colorado-based International Hunter Education Association, says, "Hunter education has evolved beyond safety to responsibility and ethics and wildlife conservation." Among the states, only Alaska lacks mandatory instruction; minimum instruction is usually 10 hours, and much of the teaching is devoted to the moral issues raised by hunting...
...mailings to school districts across the country, The Fund for Animals, based in New York City, points to the Jonesboro shootings and calls for an end to hunter education and safety courses in schools, which often are sponsored by state wildlife agencies with support from firearms manufacturers. "Hunting breeds insensitivity to the suffering of others, whether animal or human," says Susie Cutler, 39, a Porter, Ind., lawyer who demonstrates against hunters in a nearby state park. "You can look at some of the shooting rampages in schools--a lot of [these kids] were taught to hunt by adults. In their...
...remember, a glamorous ritual of romance and adulthood. (Watch Casablanca and count the cigarettes.) It may be happening now with hunting. In 1997, the various states issued 14.9 million hunting licenses. Ten years earlier, the number was 15.8 million--not a dramatic change, but a trend. The average American hunter is white, male and 42 years old. Young people who once would have gone hunting naturally and casually in nearby fields and forests (as Glenn Shepard does) instead play soccer and go to the mall...
...time hunting seemed heroic: a test of manliness, a mythic pageant, a recreational surrogate for war. Ernest Hemingway was savagely, sometimes childishly competitive for trophy animals. The '60s brought a shift, and Vietnam a sort of anti-Hemingway revulsion. Michael Cimino's 1978 movie The Deer Hunter ended with the hero lowering his rifle, declining to kill a good-looking buck that, before Vietnam, he would happily have slaughtered...
Consider a scene in his magnificent 1893 book, The Wilderness Hunter: one minute Roosevelt watches, with a benign Wild Kingdom-documentary fascination, as two rutting bull elk clash in the Bitterroot Mountains, with a third bull, whom Roosevelt calls "the peacemaker," trying to intervene, and the next minute, having made the reader see and almost love the animals and wish them well in the exuberant politics of their courtships, Teddy lifts his rifle and blows away all the bulls, dropping them one, two, three...