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xanthian@qualcomm.com (Kent Paul Dolan) wrote:
>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.
>

How do you think "problem" lions currently are taken; by rubber-band gun? 
They are taken by professional hunters of agents of government 
bureaucracy who generally use hounds to track the animal and shoot it at 
relatively close range. The possibility of missing is extremely remote. 
Not only that, the close range virtually guarantees a quick, humane 
death. Please try to face reality.




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