Take a look at Britain. You can't bowhunt there. Ruled illegal because it's "inhumane". Home of the English longbow and you can't hunt with it there. Cannot even possess hunting type broadheads unless you can prove a "need" for it, as far as I recall reading. They just banned using dogs for hunting---which includes the famous English foxhunt.
This is the kind of thing we're up against. Our heritage is at stake. Perhaps it's time to fight fire with fire. I think that anti-hunters are not being "culturally sensitive" to our needs. It's time they went for some sensitivity training. Since hunting is our heritage, it is, therefore, part of our culture. Therefore, stopping us from hunting would be a "hate crime". Sounds funny, but no one has tried that tactic yet. It's a true tactic. Hunting is a common heritage of all races at one time or another. Therefore, hunting is no different than getting in touch with other cultural roots such as growing taro in the case of native Hawaiians. Being as there are elaborate religious ceremonies regarding hunting in quite a number of traditional religions, including those of pre-Christian Europeans, even a religious basis could be made. (In fact, there were once also some special Christian blessings given to hunters in some countries.) Once you begin to validate hunting as more than a sport, the antis are going to have a hard time justifying their positions without landing smack dab in the pitfall of their own making, that pitfall being political correctness. Political correctness holds it is wrong to attack or criticize a culture or cultural phenomena or a religion. It's easy to attack what is perceived as a sport. Attacking a heritage or culture would be something else entirely.
