...our present mentality.
So in Benton, TN, a bear attacked a family, killing a young girl. Now there is a hunt for this bear in order to kill it.
First let me say, I'm sorry for a little girl dieing. I'm not saying she is worthless or that it's not sad she is dead.
So let me get this straight.. A bear does something it always does. Kill for protection or territory control, and then we get upset because we (obviously) are not strong enough to survive a bear attack, so we must now hunt this bear down and kill it? So in other words, if we're upset because of an unfortunate event, we make up for it by killing. Don't give me arguments with humans for death penalty because I'm not sure where I stand on that issue right now.
Anyways, what really pisses me off, is the ranger/searcher was talking to the reporter and stated they will search the bear (if caught) for parasites in the brain which would "explain his aggressiveness" toward the victims. OK, so when a bear doesn't have parasites in the brain, it's a nice animal that comes up and snuggles with humans. Like a Yogi Bear feeling, he/she will crawl up to our picnic site, steal our basket and run away laughing as we scream "Yogiiiiii!" Then the bear will turn around, and share the basket with us over a nice bottle of Chianti and we enjoy stories comparing humans and animals.
But if that same bear gets a parasite in the brain, then it's going to get upset that a human is in its territory and do something crazy; it's going to guard its property. I mean, we humans don't do that. Well, we carry guns in our house in case a criminal comes in, and then we shoot him and claim we were allowed because he/she was on our property. But that's not the same thing. Come on, these are animals; they should be put down whenever we want to make a family happy. Then these same people are going to argue ten years from now that conservative republicans aren't protecting the environment, and are directly to blame for the bears going extinct. The ranger actually said they don't know how to really tell if they catch the right bear, but they've marked several "problem bears" so they will do tests on each one they catch to determine what "went wrong."
Here it is kids... Nothing "went wrong." Bears kill humans. You have to be careful where you're camping or picnicking. And if a bear does suddenly attack for some odd reason, well, it's a BEAR!! I'm sorry for the family's loss, but why do we always feel getting revenge will solve our sadness/anger in America? Lawsuits, murder, death penalty, etc. We just want, and want, and want.
So in Benton, TN, a bear attacked a family, killing a young girl. Now there is a hunt for this bear in order to kill it.
First let me say, I'm sorry for a little girl dieing. I'm not saying she is worthless or that it's not sad she is dead.
So let me get this straight.. A bear does something it always does. Kill for protection or territory control, and then we get upset because we (obviously) are not strong enough to survive a bear attack, so we must now hunt this bear down and kill it? So in other words, if we're upset because of an unfortunate event, we make up for it by killing. Don't give me arguments with humans for death penalty because I'm not sure where I stand on that issue right now.
Anyways, what really pisses me off, is the ranger/searcher was talking to the reporter and stated they will search the bear (if caught) for parasites in the brain which would "explain his aggressiveness" toward the victims. OK, so when a bear doesn't have parasites in the brain, it's a nice animal that comes up and snuggles with humans. Like a Yogi Bear feeling, he/she will crawl up to our picnic site, steal our basket and run away laughing as we scream "Yogiiiiii!" Then the bear will turn around, and share the basket with us over a nice bottle of Chianti and we enjoy stories comparing humans and animals.
But if that same bear gets a parasite in the brain, then it's going to get upset that a human is in its territory and do something crazy; it's going to guard its property. I mean, we humans don't do that. Well, we carry guns in our house in case a criminal comes in, and then we shoot him and claim we were allowed because he/she was on our property. But that's not the same thing. Come on, these are animals; they should be put down whenever we want to make a family happy. Then these same people are going to argue ten years from now that conservative republicans aren't protecting the environment, and are directly to blame for the bears going extinct. The ranger actually said they don't know how to really tell if they catch the right bear, but they've marked several "problem bears" so they will do tests on each one they catch to determine what "went wrong."
Here it is kids... Nothing "went wrong." Bears kill humans. You have to be careful where you're camping or picnicking. And if a bear does suddenly attack for some odd reason, well, it's a BEAR!! I'm sorry for the family's loss, but why do we always feel getting revenge will solve our sadness/anger in America? Lawsuits, murder, death penalty, etc. We just want, and want, and want.
