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# Got Cougars?
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/730/
- Published: 2005-04-22T11:12:02.000Z
- Updated: 2005-04-22T11:12:02.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Here's an interesting piece about the cougar attacks in California. [LINK](http://www.lewrockwell.com/fontova/fontova46.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). You may want to skip the first half. It's a little too self-indulgent for us, but the second half is clever enough. Excerpts:

> "There is a better chance of being struck by lightning than being attacked by a lion." That's John Updike "Lion specialist" with California Fish and Game Department. "Including Thursday's incident, there have been only 13 mountain lion attacks on humans in California over the past 110 years."

> Fine, Updike, but you're omitting an interesting datum: 90 per cent of those attacks came in the last twenty years ”“ coinciding with California's hunting ban on cougars. Interesting, huh?

> "Wealthy trophy hunters, many from out of state, will pay for the pleasure of shooting a lion so they can hang mountain lions over their mantelpieces." Thus ran, word for word, the scientifically-based campaign to ban cougar hunting in California.

> And here's the craziest part: more lions are killed now in California by (taxpayer and hunting-license fee salaried) wildlife officers than were killed previously by (tax and hunting-license paying) hunters!

> Ah! But at least none get hung over a mantlepiece, hunh greenies!