Gun culture
While listening to the ABC Radio the other day, I was extremely impressed by an interview they had with a young clay target shooter from Bombala named Brody Walters.
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A very well spoken and modest Brody has set his hopes and dreams on shooting for Australia, and the local shooting fraternity wish him well.
As is the case with all young clay target shooters who are bought up around guns, and gun clubs, they are taught strict rules and discipline along with extreme self-control from a very young age, which carries them through to adulthood, thus ensuring a steady supply of model citizens for the future.
Well done and best of luck once again Brody.
Nev Brady
Bermagui
Waxing lyrical
The latest copy of the Holiday Guide published by the Eurobodalla Shire Council reminds those who are fortunate enough to live or holiday here of the magnificent natural attractions of the shire.
The writer of the guide waxes lyrical when she says, “Whether it’s diving under a wave, or a gentle dip in the calm waters of a secluded bay, exploring a stunning ancient headland, or resting on a riverbank, Eurobodalla offers an endless panorama of unspoilt beauty to recharge your mind, body and soul”.
How can this vision possibly be reconciled with a celebration of the recreational killing of animals?
Shire councillors, with only three exceptions, seem to have blinded themselves to the present and future image of the nature coast, and the wishes of the electorate, when they decided to allow such damaging event as HuntFest to take place every year for five years in the main street of Narooma.
How Life Should Be, or Narooma Home of HuntFest?
Don’t wait till the next election to make your wishes known, as it may be too late.
Citizens can help now by entering in, or visiting, the photographic exhibition to be held concurrently with HuntFest.
The exhibition will feature photos of live animals in their natural environment, along with a section that best conveys the reality of hunting, guns and the killing culture in Australia.
Susan Cruttenden
Dalmeny
Denying reality
Climate change deniers are entirely self-serving.
There is a phenomenon known to psychology as cognitive dissonance.
It is condition where belief is so at odds with reality that the individual suffering from it has to go more strenuous and ultimately violent means to prop that belief up.
Cognitive dissonance is usually powered by greed and desire for self-enrichment.
Climate change deniers are entirely self-serving and therefore suffer from increasing cognitive dissonance.
The climate change deniers are like the thieves on the lifeboat who, when challenged for stealing the last of the water, vociferously defend themselves by proclaiming that the lifeboat is surrounded by water, that rescue is at hand, that the ship never sank in the first place, that they have a traditional right to that water and that any attempt to stop them taking that water is an attack on their value system.
The planet is falling apart due to over-population.
Australia is overcrowded in comparison to the food and water resources it has and every additional human means further encroachment on what little viable wilderness is left.
Everyone knows this, yet many choose to believe that resources are infinite, an increasing population is sustainable, and that the nasty conservationists are trying to deprive them of something that is rightfully theirs.
They are suffering cognitive dissonance on a massive scale and the worse the global environmental situation gets, the greater gap between belief and reality, and therefore the more strenuously and violently the defence of that belief will become.
John Perkins
South Durras