Many people in this country hunt to live

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Actually killing their own food is so far from the majority of DUers experience that some can't even imagine it, or imagine what it is to be totally off the grid and free of the matrix, and to be self-sufficient. I can't blame them, because it was never even a remote possibility in their environment and experience, but they really do need to remember these people. They need to remember that taking away some folks' hunting rifles would be like taking away city folks' ability to buy ground beef and steak at a market.

You can get about 70-85 lbs of good eating meat (in quality from backstrap on down to burger and sausage grind) off a mature muley buck, (whitetails tend a bit less) depending on the size of the deer, and how good a butcher you are. Figure what 70 lbs of good meat would cost at a grocery store at $3.00 a lb, and that's $210 worth of food. Figure most country folk that hunt might get two or three deer a year (licenses and bag limits usually don't mean much to folks who depend on hunting for their food) 3 deer is $630 worth of meat. Figure some country folks who live primarily off the land grow all or most of their own veggies and root crops, and supplement with some wild caught fish also.

And I do believe that assault weapons and handguns need to be seriously controlled. Too many innocent people are being harmed or killed by deranged people with guns nowadays. But I totally agree with you, it's not right to take away the ability of human beings who live somewhat outside the matrix to get their own food for themselves and their families without being dependent on matrix systems.

I grew up in the country, and I was one of those people you are talking about, when I was much younger. Like you, I'm a vegetarian now, and loathe the idea of killing anything nowadays.