candace, you're logic just lights up this forum :rollhappy:
it's far easier to quickly bring down an animal with the least pain and suffering with a gun than knives, sticks spears or clubs
(and arrows, by the way, which some people think is more 'sporting'). I hunt to be outside and I love eating venison, and so do others when I make venison spiedies
. unfortunately, having to buy a gun, licence and all that is the only way to get venison. if there was another way (not with my vehicle) then I wouldn't be hunting.
just think what a field day PETA would have had with all of those cave men who would surround an animal and stick about forty pointed sticks into it until it bled to death about three or four miles away. and, I would suggest that nobody go hunting unless they full well expect to be eating it, or giving it to someone who is short of food so that they can eat it