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In article <4ja81k$5f3@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com>,
lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell) wrote:

>   Unfortunately the wrong parties would be harmed.  


>   Judging from the news reports of joggers being attacked in the
>   bay hills, it would appear that the state of Calif. is delinquent
>   in keeping lions away from jogging areas (unless the joggers
>   are jogging in lion country in which case my sympathy level declines
>   a bit).

Up until the settlers drove them out of most of it, probably all of
California except the high desert and mountain peaks was "lion country",
so there's not much comfort to be derived from drawing some artificial
boundary today, this side "good lions", that side "bad lions".

>   However, I don't see Prop 197 being at all a useful
>   or even safe solution to this problem--except as a statement of
>   discontent which it would seem could be done in some other manner.

Yeah, it's not likely to make jogging paths any safer to have people
shooting there, is it?  The whole problem with the concept of trophy
hunting to control lion attacks on humans is that the lions that would be
attacking humans are of concern preceisely because they live cheek by jowl
to human settlement, not the best place to allow shooting guns whose
bullets can carry a couple of miles.

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