No bait taking here. The reporter writes articles to sell papers and tries to sensationalize it with words like sniper. That is what reporters do. If someone doesn't understand that then are not thinking for themselves.
My point is this...
If Joe Smith got fed up and finally popped the [beeep] with his Crossman 760, as it was ripping up his garbage for the 12th time, or peeing on his pepper garden, then I don't have a lot of sympathy for the cat, or the people that apparently decided to adopt it and let it roam. If Joe Smith shot it with his .22 while it sat on his neighbors porch, then I think that Joe is reckless and should be arrested. If that is the case and it were my cat, I would want to add a busted nose to go along with his criminal charges. There is a very real possibilty of injuring, or killing someone when you do things like that. Does anyone disagree with that?
My ire with this is becasue it appears that we automatically make assumptions and dismiss things like this because the presentation came from the media and it involes a cat, that alot of people dislike for some reason. I perosnally like cats just fine. I also like coyotes, fox, deer, turkey and various small game, but I still kill them when I want to eat em, use their fur, or they are being destructive. The point of concern is not the cat, but how and where it may have met it's demise. There are not alot of facts presented in the article and we know none of the details. If it is how it appears to be, based on the information that we have been provided, then it is not a laughing matter. If it got popped by a pellet while roaming and destroying property and made it home before it died, then the trigger man needs to work on his shot placement.
As gun owners and hunters we should be condemming this act, if it is how it appears. If we laugh and make jokes about it we are just giving them more ammo to use against us and appear that we condone reckless acts with firearms and then all of us are the same.
