Missouri Offering New Incentives to Get Kids Killing Too

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-06-26 07:01:00 UTC
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Earlier this week, I lambasted Wisconsin's plans to lower its hunting age for kids, remove safety training requirements, and lower the price for kids' hunting licenses. So it's only fair that I now point out that my own less-than-progressive state is cutting its prices for kids' hunting permits too--in half--and that Missouri's minimum hunting age is even ridiculously lower: 6 years old. (But of course, as I briefly noted in the previous post on this topic, the majority of states don't have a minimum hunting age at all.) Like Wisconsin, Missouri hopes that this will encourage more kids to hunt or, perhaps more accurately, that it will encourage more adults to teach kids to hunt and kill.

Teach kindergartners to kill. And then complain about violence. That's what we do in this nation of "traditions."

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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