Good points Rosco, Shuckins and AKSWulfe. I think this thread was intended as a warning to motorists to be careful driving....in this case the driver hit a deer.
The deer hunters among us have seen so much, that this picture doesn't bother us much, as far as the deer is concerned. After all, we hunt them and have seen many deer.
I completely understand how some may be offended at seeing that picture, especially if they had little kids and they saw it and started crying.
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About hunting:
Modern day hunting is not so much a sport as it is a exercise in tradition, and a rite of passage. Fathers take their children hunting to teach them respect for nature, to be responsible with a firearm, and to learn right from wrong. It is quality time.
Lessons learned from hunting include never pointing a gun at something you don't intend to shoot, and don't just kill something to be killing it, but instead go through the preparations of cleaning and eating what you kill. This is often enforced, so you learn not to kill possums or songbirds, etc...
Hunting does involve killing an animal with one shot, so it dies quickly without suffering... And, imo, is only justified when the animal is eaten. Hunting is hard work, and successful hunts, where you kill a deer, are not an everyday event. If it was, it would be called killing instead of hunting.
Les
