Dear Editor,
I hate to play the blue meanie again, especially since Randi Brockman’s heart is in the right place, but she is sadly wrong to dismiss the necessity of killing deer.
“Animals don’t want to destroy our towns,” she said.
Of course they don’t want to. But in sufficient numbers they will, by bringing traffic to a standstill.
Then she said, “Before man wandered this planet, animals seem to do just fine.”
Before man, there were other predators. Deer have always been hunted, and it is hard to understand why being killed by a mountain lion is less cruel that being killed by a human. (Foxes, wolves and bears seldom, if ever, eat deer.)
We can avoid hunting the deer if we bring back the mountain lions. But there are problems associated with that, since mountain lions sometimes decide that people are just as tasty as deer, and easier to catch.
Her final solution is to catch and sterilize a large number of female deer. This will work. But it would be very expensive.
Considering that people do not like paying taxes to educate children, I doubt that they would like paying higher taxes to sterilize deer.
But, if she wants to use her right of petition for referendum to put a deer sterilization bill on the ballot, more power to her.
Rick Norwood

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