Protecting Your Right to Hunt is More Important Than Ever

Every day, actually every hour, animal-rights extremists, and supposedly well-meaning but ill-informed people in the United States and across the globe, are working to end hunting. They rely on emotion and misdirection to confuse average citizens into supporting their cause. Articles, opinion pieces and editorials in local, national and even international outlets confuse hunting with poaching; demonize hunters; blame hunters for wildlife population declines; and make the false claim that there are no limitations on hunting whatsoever. The people writing these articles are so far removed from nature that they don’t realize—and don’t care—that they are trying to remove the one component absolutely necessary to successful conservation throughout the world: the hunter.

While most Americans support hunting, this support is slowly eroding over time on a species-by-species basis. Animal-rights proponents know they can’t stop whitetail deer hunting without a rebellion, so they instead push hunting bans by choosing other wildlife to drive opposition to hunting more broadly. Amazingly enough, predators are incredibly popular with the public, and that’s why efforts to ban bear hunting and mountain lion hunting, for example, have been successful in some states. I’ve heard hunters say, “They’ll never end deer hunting.” Well, maybe not in our lifetime, but what about the next generation? Make no mistake, their goal is to end all hunting, and they haven’t been shy about saying that.