Love this letter about feral cats

[question everything]

Treat killer cats and hunters the same

A study on the neuter and release of feral cats estimated that each year they kill more than a billion birds and mammals, including rats (“Managing feral cats: The facts and the values,” Sept. 18). What about the number of deer, pheasants, bears, mourning doves, etc., killed by hunters each year? Maybe a study could call for a program to neuter hunters.

SHIRLEY HALL, Minneapolis

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/224649641.html

(Yes, I am biased against hunters, lived in a city all my life)

[Jenoch]

1. I do not believe a law requiring

the sterilization of hunters in Minnesota would ever get passed in the Minnesota Legislature. Besides that, hunting is a protected activity guaranteed in the Minnesota Constitution.

I would think that female hunters of child-bearing age would be especially outraged if such a law were to be enacted.

[trotsky]

2. I'm not a hunter.

But hunters in Minnesota are overwhelmingly responsible and law-abiding. Deer, pheasants, etc. would face incredible overpopulation issues if we didn't allow them to be hunted.

I've got no problem with Minnesota hunters.

[Brickbat]

3. Meh.

I wouldn't have run the letter. I'm biased against false equivalencies.