preview

My Family Has Never Been A Hunting Family

Good Essays

Growing up, I spent a lot of time around guns, my father was a military sniper, we lived in places where people had guns, and used them most weekends. Along with guns came hunting, I spent most of what I would refer to as my childhood in a small town Cheyenne, Wyoming. Hunting was a common occurrence there, my neighbors had a wolf skin rug hung up on the wall, deer heads in the hall, and pictures of hunts all over the house. My family has never been a hunting family itself, my mother loves animals and would not ever shoot one, and my father finds his guns skills , being much better than that of an average hunter, to be unfair to the animal. This might give you the feeling that because I have never pulled the trigger on a deer that I don’t know what I am talking about. I counter with the idea that this gives me an advantage, because I have not participated myself but I have been surrounded by it, I have a rare and objective perspective on the prospect of hunting. I have seen many kinds of hunting, and I have seen many kinds of hunters. Not all hunting should be considered ethical, but we also should not condemn all hunting either.

I think that it may be important to start an argument in support of hunting with the proposal that I find large amounts of value in an animal 's life. I would consider myself an animal kind of guy, I have always had pets, dogs mostly, and a cat. I always like reading books about animals, facts and stories, when I was younger. To this day I want a

Get Access