Reply #293: Disagree strongly [View All]

[MrBenchley]

"like a lot of demands for the government to DO SOMETHING, it will likely be some sort of ineffective bandaid"
See many segregated buses lately? Many bank closings? Expect Ken Lay to run off with your Social Security? Government can be marvelously effective.

"where I live I get quite few families that seem to actually be supplementing their food supplies"
That happens in way backwoods communities...I doubt there's as many as 100,000 families doing that across the entire country. Google "game farms" and Arizona and see what you get.

And in most states hunting programs cost a lot more than they take in. Not to mention the public costs (not usually counted on any hunting department ledger) of rescuing hunters who have shot themselves or gotten drunk and fallen down and busted a leg.

The largest of the Califronia wildfires last year was started by a hunter who got lost and started a fire to signal for help. How many billions of hunting licenses will we need to sell to make up THAT cost?