Spring bear public comment is open

[Skyvalhunter]

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[Rob]

In other (related based on the crazy comments)  news...

Here is a Lawsuit to establish Elephants as people.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/lawsuit-to-declare-elephant-a-person/

This is how crazy they are, and how they jump to conclusions like "hunting is murder"

Of course this is in NY and I think the average elephant is more human and more intelligent than the average New Yorker.

[Bullkllr]

You want disjointed and unhinged- possibly mentally ill and dangerous?

[Ghost Hunter]

Yup, they're out in force today.  Lot of deranged anti's out there.  Keep the comments coming. 

[bracer40]

Commented again and here’s the link one more time: https://publicinput.com/SpringBearPetition102

[HillHound]

Man these people are wack jobs. We’re horrible because we want to put organic meat on our table, but they’re great people saying they want to kill us now? Bunch of idiots.

[Stein]

No joke, I don't know what rock they turned over but we have a whole bunch of angry ignorant people pounding away on the form today.

[elkrack]

Good! Any sane person who reads those comments can easily see which group is civil and which is violent

[Bullkllr]

Yeah, I really didn't realize there were that many people so far cut off from reality as what we are seeing in those comments.

[pickardjw]

Looks like they had to post a link to a different page to view all comments. A quick CTRL+F shows 5,500 instances of the word "support" and 2,400 instances of "oppose". Though some of those could be double negatives like, "I'm opposed to ending the spring bear hunt" or "I support ending the Spring bear hunt". Also was able to find this gem

[pickardjw]

More stats:

210 instances of the word "murder"
341 instances of the word "trophy"
309 instances of the word "sport"
106 instances of the word "slaughter"
44 instances of people "vehemently" opposed
38 instances of the word "psychopath" (these are real colorful ones)

[TRD1911]

Is there a way of filtering responses based on science (maybe the term "evidence based"?). I'm predicting a very small correlation between this filter and anti-hunter comments.

[pickardjw]

Not really. Over 1500 mentions of "science" and it's a mixed bag. "Evidence" seems to bring up more anti-comments.

[Bullkllr]

Comments are still rollin' in. Looking pretty 1-sided tonight. Comment if you can, and encourage others to do the same.

[Chesapeake]

These folks seem completely ignorant to the reality of wildlife management. They think if they stop hunters from hunting the animals get to live free. As if the government won’t just contract out the killing to APHIS and other similar outfits. Even with hunting seasons ongoing they still hire contractors for removal.

California cougar is a great long term study of this. Used to be hunters hunted and still contractors were needed, and now since 1990 it’s all just contractors and damage permits. But still 200 to 300 California cougars get killed on average each year. The activists didn’t stop any cougars from getting killed, they just stopped joe hunter who wanted to eat them from participating.

Why have hunters pay to hunt when you can just have taxpayers pay contractors to kill them.

But I guess we have to remember these folks also think the government hands out free money and will take care of us all.

Even the commission members ask questions along these lines; is there scientific evidence the spring hunts reduce tree damage, does the population data show the spring hunt isn’t a detriment to the population, ect… All seemingly reasonable questions till you consider these folks have the data right in front of them that shows for decades these hunts have taken place, and each year APHIS and other outfits are brought in to remove hundreds of bears, using dogs, bait, and traps.