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Originally posted by Disappointed:
I'm amazed that there are people in this area who think it's okay to discharge firearms in the city limits merely to kill cats. In doing so, they may put their families and neighbors at risk due to "friendly fire." And how about the police officers who will inevitably come around? Our cops don't need those kinds of thoughtless risks!
Most of these urban feline vigilantes think they're better shots or their weapon is more accurate than is really the case. They would be better served just to take a chill pill and to shoot off their mouths less!
In my opinion. the strongest justification for firearm limitations is that many parents thirty or forty years ago did not practice birth control!
And I am amazed and DISAPPOINTED about how little attention you and certain other pro-feral cat people pay to what is posted. When you don't read carefully, you wind up posting incorrect, irrelevant, and ignorant responses, such as yours, above.
You should have noted that in my post, I carefully qualified the conditions upon which I would use a firearm to eradicate free-roaming cats. I will post it again and invite you to actually read and understand it before you reply again (preferably with a retraction of your disjointed first failed attempt to be relevant).
Here goes; PAY ATTENTION:
"Whenever and wherever it is legal to shoot free-roaming cats, those who have appropriate means to do so should arrange for their removal--dead or alive!"
No laws are broken when something is "legal," Disappointed. And should the police come around where use of firearms is legal, they would find me taking due care not to fire upon any other target than the offending feline(s).
Note also that CageTheElephant pointed out that he lives in a "rural" area. Thus, he would not be an "urban feline vigilante." "Rural," Disappointed, is the OPPOSITE of "urban."
Perhaps this little tutorial will help you to see the actual facts and substance of the posts to which you have responded with such disregard to what those posts actually said. I have to suspect that in your obviously emotional bias for these scraggly invasive exotic mammals, you impetuously assumed the worst and thus fired off your response without halfway paying attention to relevant details.
As to the presumed accuracy of weapons, be advised, Disappointed, that that issue is not particularly of concern when the weapon of choice is a 12-gauge shotgun, loaded with No. 6 shot, at close range, which describes the relevant circumstances of my past feline eradication initiatives.
Try to do better next time.