If you are a responsible hunter and not a trophy hunter doing it for the pure "sport", then you shouldn't get so defensive because it doesn't really apply to you. I've heard the "population control" excuse from my uncle who hunts and while that may sound like it's all for the benefit of the animals, then why does he have heads mounted on the wall? I see the "heart" in that Again, if it wasn't for the overpopulation of humans then there wouldn't need to be population control for wild animals. True, I don't hunt, I don't have the heart to take an animal's life myself. I don't have a "clue" from experience, but I've heard enough from hunters themselves. While you may have the heart to put a sick animal out of it's misery, your average knuckle dragging barbarian looking for that trophy buck doesn't. (I haven't ever seen a sick deer mounted on a proud hunter's wall.)

Before this heated discussion goes any further, lets just agree to disagree. Hunters and non-hunters have all made their points and they are getting no where with each other.