Originally Posted by
TommyG
You make a good point, and I agree with you. I will be interested to see how your effort to advance the issue takes shape.
Thanks. As I'm working on this, doing a point by point list and writing out concepts for flyers, ads for publications, hunter education snippets, etc., I have to ask: Does anyone here know of prior efforts that have sought to get this problem solved in a methodical, systematic, well thought out manner? I.e. did the previous people who tried have a real plan in the same sense you would run a business, teach a school course, run a political campaign, or cure a disease? This is very much like all of those things.
Example, curing a contagious disease, which shares much in common with the belief in a bad idea, in this case the idea against using semi autos for hunting:
A. Identify and understand the disease itself: symptoms, life cycle (how long it takes to run its course), etc.
B. Identify who or what, where and when the disease is acquired (age, location, occupation, daily activities of them)
C. Identify the specific pathogen--fungus, virus, bacteria, chemical, etc.--and study it, learn how it behaves
D. Identify the vector which transmits the disease
E. Figure out a way or better yet many ways to minimize the transmission of the disease, e.g. reduce the numbers of the vector (mosquitoes for malaria, for example)
F. Inquire as to known remedies, successful and not, for the disease itself and others similar to it
G. Quarantine/isolate the infected ones to contain the existing cases of the disease and treat them
H. Develop habit adaptations for the populations susceptible to the disease to adopt in order to minimize and prevent further future incidence of the disease.
Last edited by yellowfin; 06-10-12 at 22:25.
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