You are correct, I don't hunt but I have no problem with people that do. Fundamentally, I guess my hope is that the game is used for food rather than simply for sport. But I'm not the judge or jury for those that choose simply sport. Perhaps I can clarify what I'm saying with respect to the 2nd Amendment evaporating. It has not, though it has been under many attacks. We have leaders all around us that believe that they know what is better for us than we do. An example of it being under attack, one need look no further than D.C. or Chicago, these cities deny their citizens of the rights others enjoy under the 2nd Amendment.
When good conscientious gun owners are willing to "give a little" for lack of a better phrase, the 2nd Amendment wobbles. If we as gun owners think that it's O.K. for a person or group of persons to tell us what we can own and what we can't own I believe we sell out just the slightest bit and we stand on shaky ground. I don't believe in the term "assault weapon" because no one I know can tell me what that is. One can be assaulted with a BB gun, Paint Ball gun, AK 47 or 12 guage shot gun. If I thought it were O.K. to regulate "assault weapons" at least as I have described them, there would be no guns. I believe that is exactly what the anti-gun crowd tries to do to us.
This same group of people tries to make us believe that no well reasoned person has any use for a particular weapon (remember I'm one of those evil people who owns a .50 caliber BMG), therefore we should outlaw this particular weapon. Well since no one has need of a .50, then it's O.K. for one to reason that no one has need for an AK 47. If you are a legal gun owner and use your firearm responsibly, who am I to tell you which you can own? It's none of my business. This is a slippery slope and once the ground is given up it is almost impossible to recover that's where I see the correlation in the 2nd Amendment evaporating. It is constantly under attack but the people don't tell you that this is what they are doing.
The 2nd Amendment wasn't written so that we can only own sporting rifles in fact that wasn't its intent at all. It was written so that citizens have the ability to protect themselves from individuals or groups of people, even governments. After all it was penned shortly after we as a people had just done so. I didn't take the "within reason" comment to mean people but rather what type of weapon I can own. Certainly I believe that felons, insane, mentally unstable persons should not carry/own weapons. I acknowledge the we don't have well defined rules to determine the status of some of these people. I hope this better explains my mindset.
) Cunningham's MySpace. He's a local boy. Click on his song Guns & Religion. I know a couple of guys here will get a kick out of it, a few others will like the beat and can dance to it (you're showing your age if you know what that means) and a few will get the meaning. 