So, uh, Frank,

Am I to understand that you're not a fan of snakes? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Ed

Damn that one just fills my patriotic heart with warmth. Well I'm off to polish my sword and dust of the helmet. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

yes, greedy. Having children is a choice people make, and that choice results in the rest of the planet facing more pollution, less wildlands... results in resource shortages - et al. A breeder faces those problems because he/she chose to. The rest of us don't have a choice. The dislocated animals don't have a choice. The trees that get cut to make houses don't have a choice.

That's greed. You know that more people means more pollution, more destruction.. but you have kids anyway because you want them. Greed or vanity that your genes somehow are superior to 6 billion other peoples' genes.

Not that life ever was supposed to be "fair", mind you...

What exactly "dire consequences" come from practicing reduced breeding?

Now to bring this back onto the off topic <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/ignore.gif" alt="" /> - how many animals die per human, overall? In an average lifetime you'll eat what, 10 cows, 1500 chickens, 5 pigs and 1000 fish? You'll chop down 30 trees to live in them, which will dislocate 100 birds.. you'll run over 200 squirrels/skunks/whatever...

That's a lot of dead animals just as a result of being human. I'm not saying i'm not guilty of the same.... BUT, i'm not making anymore humans either so nobody with kids better give me any crap if I ever decide to kill one stupid mountain lion.

<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> THis is funny I should have never posted those pictures. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Now kids your gonna get my dead lion thread shutdown just look at the the bloody thing and say "WOW SCARY ITS GONNA EAT ME" and be done with it.

Eric, there is only 250 million American's from that 6 billion....take your rant over to China or India <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cyclops.gif" alt="" />

Now if you want true population control I have the answer that will reduce world population by 1/2 in one day, maybe ever better than 1/2 in one day with no nukes. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />

Ed, you got that right! I don't care for snakes at all.... too many close encounters.

Frank

hahaha I can only see eric becoming a gov official and setting up those billboards like they have in china saying "Isn't it better having only 1 child?" <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

There is nothing wrong with shooting a creature, how else are you going to get it to twitch and flop around? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> I do hunt where a mountain lion has been seen and heard. We hunt coyotes and feral dogs there, so we are out at night. We do watch our backs, carry handguns as well as rifles, and stop and listen often.

Frank, I also have a dislike for snakes, can't stand them. .22 Shot shells can be safely fired into the bottoms of aluminum canoes and jonboats to render snakes lifeless. I have seen it done; though a companion in the boat might not think it is a safe practice, if the shot is fired towards him.

Eddy, there was a Christmas tree farm near Alto Prison; it closed a few years ago. Many people saw a mountain lion in that area, but DNR claimed it did not exist. That isn't too far from where you live.

Everyone should own a handgun. The little brushed nickel S&W #2213 semi auto .22 in the center of the first tray is my son Chris's first handgun; bought for him fourteen years ago when he was five years old. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> His mom was less than thrilled, but she got over it.

That's a good place for one. That's along the escarpment, the same slope that Tallulah Gorge is on, and you'd have to be cat-clawed to travel some of that very steep terrain, plus it's good deer country due to all the lie-up areas and good mast crops. I bet on the persistence of life to get the better than even odds. It's also home to a lot of the hard-eyed country folk who've been the prison guards in GA since before the chain gang days, and I hear Alto "boys school" is rough enough to need them. As for relevance to one skein of this thoroughly hijacked thread, if most kids were really wanted, there would be little need for Alto. We had 2, btw, because we were both worth replacing, and I believe the new models are quite improved...

I feel worst for the lion that what I would had felt for the guy who shot it.

Yep, I'ma tree hugger.