The Editor,
Re. "Bow hunter got bear" (The Tri-City News, June 15).
It's not the bears that are dangerous, it's humans with guns - and now arrows - that make them the threat to the future of an animal that simply wants to exist in its own habitat, just like humans do in theirs.
First, why would anyone would want to destroy a sentient life? Second, why does the government issue licences to do this? Is there a wild onslaught of bears rampaging through the streets causing mayhem?
It's a sick world where people are allowed to aimlessly wander around killing anything that moves. They can't even do it right, leaving the poor animal to suffer and leaving someone else to finish their dirty work.
The government isn't immune from this. Calling themselves "conservation officers" is a contradiction in terms. How can they be "conserving" when they are killing bears? My suggestion is that they relocate bears when they aren't busy searching for the ones mortally wounded by knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.
I hang my head in shame because I'm a human too, but with a difference: I have a brain and use it for thought, unlike the hunter or the government.
Timothy Fisher, Port Coquitlam
