Letters to the editor

Posted on Oct. 31, 2002, at 12:00 a.m.

What it means to be a hunter

Ryan Waning, some day you will learn what hunting is really about, but until then keep your comments to yourself. Not only did you insult a large number of people, you insulted a way of life.

Only after you hunt for a long time will you ever know what it is about. Not only were your comments totally inappropriate, they were tasteless. For your information many hunters do not shoot helpless fawns. Deer are very smart animals and do not simply walk up to hunters. You gave yourself a lot of credit by saying you have hunted. If you really had hunted you would realize that deer do not simply walkup to you.

Where do you get off making fun of people with mullets? I have a friend with a mullet, and to top it off, he is a hunter. Does that make him any less of person?

Yes, there are hunters that give hunting a bad reputation but it is people like you that give journalism a bad reputation.

It upsets me that The Maine Campus would allow such blatantly offensive and demeaning articles like Waning’s to be published. Just think about how you are spending time writing articles like these, when there are a lot more important things to worry about.

You may think that I am criticizing you, and for the most part, I am. But I don’t believe stereotyping people is called for.

Waning, it is people like you that can get kicks off insulting people from behind the pen, but I would like you to be a real man and tell hunters the same things you have written about them in person.

Brooks Sturtevant

Secondary education major

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