My husband likes to deer hunt, er any hunting for that matter. We have a mounted deer head in our living room. My 2yo son loves to get a "gun" (it may be a toy gun, it may be a baseball bat, anything will do) and "shoot the deer dead." He is practicing for one day when he will be big enough to go with his daddy and provide us with scrumptuous venison in our freezer.
I was shopping our local Kroger store with my children the other day. We happened upon a Christmas display of the lighted deer that you set in you yard. You know, the ones whose heads move up and down, back and forth. I passed it, hardly noticing it, and proceeding to the next aisle to get my milk and cheese. I glanced over my shoulder as I turned the corner to make sure my children were following me. Nope. My son was standing at the deer, with his hand in a gun shaped, shooting it dead. LOL! It would certainly be a low-calorie, "light" meal. ;o)
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Hunting is not about the joy of killing. It is supposed to be about the outdoors, and subsistence, and helping control the population of wild game. I am all for teaching your kids the values and traditions of your family, but if your son learns to relish killing instead of love for the outdoors and respect for wild game, then you have done him a disservice.
Oh yeah, and toy guns are just wrong, wrong, wrong wrong wrong.
I don't like it when my husband wants to go squirrel hunting, or duck hunting. We don't eat it, he does it for the thrill of shooting and being out in the woods. It can be an expensive sport, if that is all it is. Thank you for commenting, Parke.
I don't necessarily have a problem with taxidermy. Especially in the case of deer, most people who get a deer head mounted also eat the deer meat.
Now that I've gotten down off my high horse, I'm better able to see the humor in the title - good one, Tab.
And as for the toy guns, he has one, which is battery operated, I try to keep it hidden - in fact, I haven't seen it in a few weeks. Maybe it made it in the trash? A friend gave it to him and I didn't want to hurt any feelings, so I let him keep it until, oh it did go in the trash! The batteries leaked acid. I forgot until typing it up just now. So he is left to his baseball bat or hands.