great job. I hope this discussion was in a public forum on facebook.
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great job. I hope this discussion was in a public forum on facebook.
Well done.
I think you were very polite. IMO the teacher has no right to share opinions on this subject to students. I would have jumped aboard of him and told him to keep his left wing views to himself.
Very well spoken! It is way better to talk civil about such a topic than to go all defensive and get both sides up in arms cause nether side wins then. This will give him a lot to ponder and hopefully respect for our sport
Well done.
I had a co worker on my facebook from our Southern Branch, who didn't agree with my hunting activities and posts, and proceeded to attack me and hunters on my page.
I took the diplomatic, factual approach like you did, but he didn't return the favor and it got nasty (on his end) I kept it professional and then just removed him after he wouldn't quite.
A year later I was down in waterloo in meetings, at which point I had forgotten all about it, he strolls into the room and pulls up a chair beside me and shakes my hand and apologizes, said after the rant he took sometime to google what I was telling him (his issue was with baiting/camera use on bears, stating that it's an execution when you setup surveillance on them and them and entrap them with some food so you know when to setup the hit)
Said after googling the points I had made he realized why we do things a certain way and while he still wasn't in favor of hunting as a whole, he no longer viewed the bear hunting tactic as a "hit" but rather an ethical way to selectively hunt a bear, ensure there are no cubs in tow, etc.
He still isn't allowed on my facebook but he got some points for approaching me afterwards.
^same here. I only enter a dialogue on the subject (these days) because I want to try and make sure my kids...and their kids...have the same opportunities I enjoy. I actually get a little defensive about the subject, mostly because if get confronted about my interest in firearms/hunting out of the blue...at a party for instance...(it's happened) I'm usually deeply offended that anyone feels they have the right to judge me about something that has ZERO impact on them. I wouldn't dream of telling someone off about the lawful things they like to do with their free time, and I seldom feel the need to bring anyone like that around to my way of thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by trimmer21
Your exchange~good for you. Sounds like you had a pretty reasonable person on the other end of it. Well done! :)
I have a family member(who is a fishermen) call me a murderer... He's an anti... The rest of my family are nones.. They are fine with hunting and gladly except meat... Just don't want to kill the animal themselves... Family get to get here's often get into heated arguments with the one guy and me...
well done... very well done!
Nice good job..and you right on the money bulldog
Two weeks ago my sister inlaw had a party at her home. All city people, all politically correct, some with strong socialist views. My wife told me to zip it! Anyway I brought a large tray of venison summer sausage. This chap comes up to me and I told him that it was a deer that I had shot last fall. He goes into a long rant about what his views on hunters where. We're bloodthirsty and just kill things for fun etc. He was a professor form the University in London. I politely explained where he had gotten off course, the benefits of wild game. The fact that all the money that goes into environmental issues comes from us, how we keep herd numbers balanced and that most hunters are ardent environmentalists. He was most impressed and said he now saw things from a different point of view. Then the SOB ate all of the venison summer sausage.