AR-News: (US) When animals stalk humans, hunters should shoot back

[Animalconcerns]

[opinion from USA Today]

"It's crazy: When you want to hike public land in California, the Fish and
Game folks give you a pamphlet warning you to be on the lookout for poison
oak on backcountry trails, as if that's the biggest danger out there. The
pamphlet doesn't even mention mountain lions."

So a California acquaintance, and fellow hunter, remarked to me shortly
after the January cougar attacks that left one bicyclist dead and another
severely injured.

"If we could still hunt those big cats," he added, "we wouldn't have this
problem." 
...
Hunting would not completely offset the behavioral problems caused by
human overdevelopment, but it is an ancient, efficient, way to restore
humans to our place in the natural scheme of things. If, in the process,
it reminds our feline co-predators that it is not a good idea to put us on
their menu, then it is at least (no pun intended) worth a shot.

Mary Zeiss Stange, author of Woman the Hunter, teaches at Skidmore
College. She also is a member of USA TODAY's board of contributors.

full story:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-02-15-stange_x.htm

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