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Who Said Hunting is Not a Sport?

Actually, it was comedian Paul Rodriquez who is quoted as saying, “Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game.” Amusing and, on the surface, seems true. I mean, here I am with a shotgun in a tree stand and a poor innocent deer has no idea I’m looking for a venison burger. Mean and cruel, right? He’s not aware he’s being hunted. Wrong!

Here’s why this quote is wrong: every animal on the planet knows every single day of their life that they are in a fight for survival. Every animal, that is, except us humans. Seriously, think about it. Even that little squirrel or bunny poking around your backyard right now knows it’s being hunted. “No,” you say, “who’s hunting the bunny in my yard?” Well, that could be the rat snake in the bushes, the neighbor’s dog, a fox, a hawk – need I go on?

Now, while I’m sure Paul Rodriguez was just being funny and not trying to philosophize or protest the NRA, people do jump on phrases like that and hold on tight to make a case against hunting. Honestly, though, it’s a ridiculous argument. Nature is all about the hunter and the prey. From the seas, to the sky, to the prairies and the jungles – every living creature has something above it in the food chain. As humans, we just forget that 99.9% of the time. Mainly because we’re not in the natural food chain most of the time. Maybe if you’re on safari or swimming the coast we might think about being eaten, but the rest of the time, we don’t.

So, while in today’s civilized culture, hunting is not a necessity to most of us, it certainly is a right and most definitely should be considered a sport. Is it abused? No doubt. I won’t argue that for one second. I’m sickened by endangered animals killed just for sport, or worse, to make a coat for a rich lady or a pair of boots or a rug. But, that’s a different topic. This is a simple rebuttal to a quote I heard and wanted to share my two cents on. We’ll talk endangered species and over-hunting another time.

Mar 2, 2011S. Lawrence
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Comments: 25
  1. James Howley
    6 years ago

    I totally understand that because human encroachment into the natural habits of animals puts them at risk of over population of a given area and thus starvation for the lack of food . So hunting may be necessary to control the population . Controlled and regulated hunting .
    All the same hunting is not a sport. There is no sport in hiding and waiting for an animal to walk into your sights and pulling a trigger . Animal hunting animal in the wild , both hunter and hunted have a fighting chance. That is the natural balance of nature. Human hunting animal , the only chance the animal has is if the hunter happens to be a bad shot. So no hunting is not sport it is controlling over population of animals in a continuing decrease of their natural habits .

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  2. Prakash
    8 years ago

    stupid guy, animals fear of being eaten by another animal.. they are not sporting each other.. Hunting is a cunt’s sport

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  3. Jadziea
    10 years ago

    You completely ignored my point never even mind then go back to your simple minded life.

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  4. Jadziea
    10 years ago

    I meant I’m not in btw I’m trying to spread information and make people think and wake up because together we can save the world*

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  5. Jadziea
    10 years ago

    It is never ok to kill never. In this time you shouldn’t think at all that it’s ok to hunt. You people are going to leave the planet empty with no animals everything will be wiped out completely in only a few years time. You can’t think of 1 person one family hunting and trying to feed their family because more than just one person one family thinks that. Everybody only thinks about themselves. Think on a global scale millions of people think I’m one person trying to feed my family. Good on you to help your family but animals are not the only thing that can keep you alive and healthy. People can live without meat and be very healthy. The thing is why let the animals that died in the factory just go to waste they are dying for human consumption. We don’t need all of these people hunting nature needs to be left alone and alone for a long time. Don’t you think we have interfered enough? Nature needs a break and humans hunting all the prey leaves very little for the actual hunters the big animals like tigers, mountain loins … Etc. They need food too. We can’t be so selfish and only think for ourselves. We are messing everything up just for what fun? To feed your family when there are a lot more people that have it worse than you and don’t have the opportunity to even walk into a store and just get something. I’m not saying buying meat from the grocery store is humane it also has a lot of bad effects on the planet. But please think global world wide think of the planet we are destroying. Think of it all, hunting should never be a sport because people just kill for fun especially in Africa right now a lot of animals are going extinct to this very moment because of hunting. Those people who think it’s a sport are just doing it for fun killing those animals for only a trophy it’s sad and terrible. Please help the planet, the animals. Use yourself for the better and don’t attack in trying to spread information and trying to make people think and wake up because together we can save the world. That’s what I would want most, so that when I get older and have children they can live happily see animals like tigers and go to the forest and see how amazing everything is. Thank you for reading I hope I have made you think a different way. Maybe made you change your mind.

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    • A Gun Guy
      10 years ago

      Jadziea, I believe that you failed to read the final paragraph of this article. I do not endorse or even condone hunting simply for the sport of it. Killing another living thing because it is fun it not sporting or even ethical in my opinion. The overhunting of any species that is or is close to being endangered is flat out wrong in my opinion. It makes me sick when I see someone post a picture on Instagram of a big cat they just killed. So, this article is not to encourage that behavior in any way.

      But let me be clear. Hunting in and of itself is a sport. That’s point number one. Point number two is that there are species in all corners of the globe whose populations are larger than they can reasonably sustain. In North America this includes deer, ferile hogs and even coyotes to name a few. That is a fact. Find a statistic that refutes that and I’ll listen to you. That being said, the sport of hunting and then consuming what you’ve killed is very natural. Nearly every creature on the planet lives that way. So don’t argue that by hunting we are doing anything to nature that it isn’t already used to.

      Now, I don’t know what you believe in terms of life and how it came to be and how we ended up here. Athiests and those who believe evolution are how we got here also adhere to something called “natural selection”. If you believe in that, than that means nature is all about survival of the fittest. If humans are the smartest and therefore at the top of the food chain, then we have every right to live off of inferior species. If however, you believe in intelligent design or creation than the truth is God himself said that all of the animals He created were done so for our benefit. Either way, there is no argument that human beings don’t have a right to hunt and kill and prosper from it.

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      • Smart Hunter
        6 years ago

        Idiot

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      • Aaron
        6 years ago

        Do you even read what you type? You repeatedly contradict yourself… You at least show signs of being able to choose a better way of existence, as is part of the luxury of being ‘human’. You know what the right thing to do is, so just do it. You’re better than your ignorance….

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  6. sunny
    10 years ago

    do u even realise what u are saying in this article.
    first of all, ppl must realise that food chain exists out there in the wild and Just toing and froing from your couch to your refrigerator/Kitchen doesnt means that you are anywhere in it.
    Most people like you believe humans are carnivorous/omnivorous creatures—atop the food chain—who have been eating meat,
    eggs since the beginning of time. I believe a few sharks, hyenas, crocs and lions would like to have
    a word with you about who’s ahead of who in the food chain. Most large herbivores such as rhinos, hippos, elephants and
    gorillas could also kill a human easily, if provoked. These animals are also ahead of us in the food chain. Humans, historically and scientifically, have always been near the bottom of the food chain. Killing during a one-on-one confrontation without weapons, and the ability to consume bloody raw flesh right from the bone without having it cause disease later on in life, have always been the only true factors in determining physiology and placement in the food chain.
    Stalking and killing defenseless creatures by Using big guns,heavy artillery and technology doesn’t makes u a predator my friend, it makes u a Sick Twisted Sadistic Bastard.
    I pray with all my heart to mother nature that such hunters must die a violent painful and slow deaths.

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    • A Gun Guy
      10 years ago

      OK sunny, first of all for you to wish a human bring to “die a violent and slow death” brings to question both your sanity and ethics. Those are hateful and dangerous words to utter towards another human being. Secondly, The main purpose of this article is to argue that hunting is and always has been a natural part of life – human an animal alike. Since mankind could carve a point on a stick or affix a sharp stone to one, we have been killing animals for food and other things. Today, we still kill animals everyday for food all across the globe. Whether in farms growing fish, chickens, cows or alligators, we do it every day. To ignore that and throw such hateful words at any human who would take the life of an animal almost questions your humanity.

      Now, I do not, nor have I ever condoned the hunting of any animal simply for the “sport” of it. To kill a tiger so I can make a rug or a swordfish so I can mount it on my wall or a mink so I can make a coat of it – in my opinion is barbaric, cruel and a pointless waste of life. When I think of hunting and fishing, they are an effort to obtain food and nothing else. I consider the act of hunting and fishing to be “sporting” in that it is a contest – a competition between two or more beings to accomplish a goal. Their goal is to survive to live another day, mine is to catch them and supply food to my family,

      Now, if you’re going to argue that I have no business killing a defenseless deer when I can just go to the grocery store and buy ground beef, you’re missing the point of both this article and what it is I think you are trying to argue. First off, do you think that ground beef was made in a factory? It is available in a store because cows were raised and slaughtered for people to eat them. How is that more or less humane than hunting the animal and butchering it for food? Secondly, if you think killing deer is a horrible thing, tell that to the 1.2 million people who hit them with their cars every year. There are more deer in the United States than the land can maintain. Hunting them is part of a natural cycle and keeps the herds healthy and sustainable.

      So, while I’ve always said that comments and opinions are welcome on this site, I prefer they be (a) in good taste, without unchecked emotion and negativity, and (b) made with knowledgable and educational information, I don’t appreciate both your hateful words or ignorant comments. I’ll allow them at this point as an example of what is NOT tolerated on this site and should not be tolerated in any venue – virtual or not.

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  7. ashutosh
    11 years ago

    this damn sport led to extinction of many species….completely wiping them off the planet…thts not f#$%in fun..

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    • A Gun Guy
      10 years ago

      First off, nowhere in this article is the word “fun” used to describe hunting. It may be enjoyable for many hunters, but hunting for fun is not what this article is about nor is it something I personally endorse.

      Secondly, you are correct, over hunting and over fishing have lead to the extinction and near extinction of many species. That is as horrifying as it is stupid. But, even 150 years ago mankind was not overly conscious of the frailty of animal life. That’s not an excuse, it’s simply a fact. When buffalos were nearly wiped off of North America in the 19th century those doing it had no sense of what they were doing. I believe, had they stopped to think “hmmm, if we kill them all, we’ll run out of a source of food, clothing, shelter and tools”. If they did think that, I believe they would have stopped sooner than they did.

      Today, in the civilized parts of the world, we understand conservation and how fragile the ecosystem is. Yet greedy corporations and countries more concerned about money then preserving a species or ecosystem continue to wipe out species on the land and in the sea. I consider that tragic and criminal and do not defend that behavior in any way.

      However, to equate those types of people with a simple person who would kill a deer to supply food for his family is not only terribly misguided but also very ignorant. Hunting is not evil – it’s natural and always has been – for every species on earth. To appreciate what you’re hunting and why is essential to any hunter. Most, I believe, do appreciate nature for providing the food source and the fact that maintaining a healthy environment for that food source to thrive.

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  8. Martín Rafael González
    11 years ago

    In a very general perspective, we can say human beings are animals, both act similarly to survive.

    The key -and big difference- between human beings and animals is that some human beings are people. Persons can think and make decisions: they don’t act on impulse -most of the time.

    A human being who kills animals for sport, just to have fun, is definitely not a person and does not deserve to be treated as one.

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    • A Gun Guy
      10 years ago

      Martin you’re comments are appreciated but a little off base with the point of this article. This article describes hunting as a “sport” – a competition between two or more beings. Nowhere in the article does it suggest that simply hunting for sport is a good thing. On the contrary, hunting for the sport – or fun – of it, in my opinion is wrong and wreckless.

      If a human being is going to kill an animal not intending to either consume it, sell it or share it as a food source – I believe they are disrespectful of nature in general and the very animal they hunt. This article endorses hunting for food – period. In my opinion, hunting in and of itself is a “sporting” event because it is a competition. But as I said, to hunt for the sport of it is intolerable to me. So, I hope you appreciate the difference.

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  9. A Gun Guy
    11 years ago

    It never ceases to amaze me the number and types of responses to this article. First off, I don’t hate anyone who disagrees with the intention of this article. If you don’t like hunting, that’s OK, you have a right to your opinion. But please don’t hate others for disagreeing with you.

    Secondly, unless you have never and never will eat any type of meat of seafood or something was once a living animal on this planet, please don’t pretend to be better than those who like to take part in or support hunting. If you’ve eaten meat of any kind, you have partaken in the act of slaughtering an animal and using it for food. Whether a free range animal hunted or one raised to be slaughtered later, you were a part of it. So don’t hate those that actually do the slaughtering.

    Third, I do not, nor will I ever support the act of hunting or fishing just for fun. If you’re going to kill an animal to hang it on your wall or stuff it and put it on your coffee table, I DO NOT support that. I support you’re right to do it as long as you are doing so within the means of the law, but I don’t condone it or believe it is right.

    Lastly, please, everyone, read the definition of “sport”. The very first is this “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature.” If hunting or fishing does not fall into that definition, then I don’t know what else will convince you that it does.

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  10. Pierre
    11 years ago

    “I guess I would view hunting as a sport if when a bear or other animal attacks and kills a human, we call it a sport. Using the logic of some hunters here, when a dog goes after a human, child or not, he was just involved in a sport?
    And just to note, I am a firm believer in the 2nd Amendment … All of It.””

    All is says. Hunting could be a “sport” if when an animal can kill a human. It’s an “one-direction sport”, one way, one person can kill, Humans. So the quote is right indeed. (Sorry for my english, I’m French, I can read english without problem, but write is more difficult for me.)

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  11. Tony
    12 years ago

    I guess I would view hunting as a sport if when a bear or other animal attacks and kills a human, we call it a sport. Using the logic of some hunters here, when a dog goes after a human, child or not, he was just involved in a sport?

    And just to note, I am a firm believer in the 2nd Amendment … All of It.

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  12. Zeusboy
    12 years ago

    According to your definition of sport TYPING could be a sport. 60 wpm beats 40 wpm. And no one has to die!

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  13. ray
    12 years ago

    Yeah bro, we have guns tho. Im not against hunting i just think callin it a sport is stupid. If it is a sport its a realy simple one. Idt the deers have ever one. Oh yeah thats proly cause hunters carry big [censored] killing machines.

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    • A Gun Guy
      12 years ago

      So is fishing not a sport either? If I hunt with a spear or a rock is it a sport? What is your definition of a sport then?

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  14. charlee
    12 years ago

    A sport isn’t the same as “hunting”. Sport is a game, hunting is survival. Do you need to hunt the way you do to survive? Obviously not. In some cases yes but not when you do it for fun. Yes they have natural instincts to know they are being hunted to protect themselves, but guns aren’t natural and they don’t exactly know how to spot out someone waiting in a tree with a shotgun for them who tracks their every move. Instinct is to know what not to do or go. Comparing the two is completely ridiculous.

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    • Howard
      12 years ago

      Actually, Charlee, “sport” is defined as “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature”. Also, hunting and fishing – when not done as a means of acquiring food – are referred to as “hunting for sport” or “fishing for sport”. So it is not ridiculous to compare them when, in fact, they are one and the same. Animals instinctly know of dangers, whether it be a speeding car on the road or a hunter in a tree. Even if that hunter has wings, fangs or a firearm.

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      • MillerS
        12 years ago

        Hunting is not a sport, there is no competition when you are using a rifle to kill a bear or even a rabbit, it would only be a competition if the animal had a rifle too, and was able to use it to shoot back at you and defend itself. When they are hunted by another animal they are on an even playing field and have a chance of escape, whether the other animal has wings or fangs. Survival of the fittest doesn’t apply when one animal has paws to defend itself and the other animal has an automatic weapon.

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        • A Gun Guy
          12 years ago

          Would it be a competition if you were alone in the forest with a bear or mountain lion? Nope. You’d be toast. So is that really an even playing field? One of the parties has an advantage – that doesn’t make it not a sport.

          So is it not a sport when a pro baseball team scrimmages with a college team? I mean, clearly one has a huge advantage – it’s not an even playing field – so does that make it less of a sport?

          I’m not sure what you think you know about hunting, but hunters don’t use automatic weapons – at least none that I know. And to claim that a bear is unarmed is simply not true – his claws and jaw are his weapons and they are very efficient. I just don’t see the logic to your argument. But thanks for your opinion.

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        • concerned
          11 years ago

          I TOTALLY agree with you. I’ve been reading ” gun guys ” comments and it sounds like he STILL DOESN’T get it.

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