Don't forget to talk about the harm of shooting to health and the environment [View all]

[CreekDog]

Last edited Wed Mar 20, 2013, 07:42 PM - Edit history (1)

1) lead residue from shooting gets on one's clothes and enters the home the same way they do, and often children are exposed and are highly sensitive to lead's effects when young.

2) lead shot in particular contaminates the environment where it's used, whether from hunting and/or target practice. where non-lead shot is used, often the pellets themselves are ingested by animals and have the potential to harm them as well.

(on edit, readers: please note that this thread got threadjacked by someone who was just blocked from this group. note the style of their arguments and how they attempt to narrowly define the issue, then try to refute on a very narrow point, which still was misrepresented by them...then they ask for proof, but there's no need to prove that which has been well studied elsewhere, furthermore, when asked about actions by the government which would be based on substantial water quality information that already exists, they up the ante and say it is not enough, asking for yet further studies, much as climate deniers do on climate change)

anyway, see what trolling looks like, by looking below to see what the real purpose and the real techniques of the argument are designed to do.