Bow hunting is cruel to deer
Nothing justifies giving guns or bows to 12-year-olds, with 18-year-old buddies as adult “supervisors,” and terrorizing deer and citizens in rural residential neighborhoods, as Supervisor Uhler is suggesting. There is absolutely no data to support claims of a deer herd over-population problem in the Loomis/Granite Bay area. There may be an increase in deer-auto accidents, but what roads are they on? How fast are the drivers going? Are auto-accidents an accurate and scientifically acceptable way to measure deer over population? Where’s the proof that putting kids in the “kill” mode will stop auto deer collisions? If disease exists, let it cull the herd naturally. Bow hunting is notoriously cruel. Most likely, deer are not diseased, but hunters want to indoctrinate kids as early as possible. This is an opportunistic “kill it” knee-jerk response to an undocumented problem. If there really is a population problem, then find the cause and deal with it. Are people feeding deer and other wildlife in their back yards, which is illegal and contributes to wildlife problems? Before we teach kids that killing and violence solves issues, and put our neighborhood communities in danger of errant shots, we need to look at other options (educate the public, lower speed limits, use lights to warn drivers of approaching deer, dart with contraceptives, etc.). The reality is that trophy-hungry hunters have seen big bucks in Loomis/Granite Bay neighborhoods. Whoever votes for this cockamamie idea needs to be recalled. Jim Cather Loomis
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A deer hunt in a rural-residential area? What sick mind brings up these kinds of proposals? This is about as absurd as it gets.
First, there are laws that no guns can be fired within 450 feet of any structure. There are not too many places in the Loomis-Granite Bay area where anyone will have that kind of "buffer" or protection from either the arrow (or the bullet if they use firearms).
Then we hear the hunt is for kids--12 to 17 years olds. It's being proposed as a "special hunt" to give them an "opportunity" to kill. Is that 12-year old going to know the trajectory and know when he/she is too close to a structure to file legally?
Then, the real joke is that the kids have to have a supervisor--anyone 18 or over, such as an older sibling or buddy qualifies. Talk about babes in the woods! If we were living in some Podunk, backwater incestuous swamp (which do exist in some parts of this country), then I'd consider the source of this cruel proposal and the damaged thought processes of the ones who proposed it. But this is supposed to be a highly educated, more affluent than average community.
To put the frosting on this, now we hear it may be a doe hunt--a small number--so small that it won't have any impact on the size of the deer herd--then why have the killing, wounding, maiming, and suffering at all?
Everyone, please write to the Board of Supervisors: Tell him/her that if they vote for this, they will never receive another vote from you: bos@placer.ca.gov.
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The Loomis are aIS country. Maybe not as much as it used to be, but still rural. I'm sure the hunters aren't a bunch of state fair carney shooters, and can hit what they aim at. Perhaps you and OP favor the deer starving or getting hit by cars on the roads. Perhaps your family could be a victim of one of those deer jumping out in front of your car. If this is a deciding issue for you on who to support or reject in an election maybe you need new priotories.