Money and violence

Explain how the wealthy insurance agent is some kind of rock star for paying hundreds of dollars to travel to Florida with his son and have dogs catch wild boars — so he can jump on them and stab them, but the alpaca killers are in need of psychological evaluation. While I deplore all cruelty to defenseless living things, I am confused as to what the difference is in violence. I am pretty sure it's money. I know that Florida has a wild boar problem, but if they need to thin them out, it should be done humanely. Evidently, though, they can make a lot of money off of every Barney Fife out there who wants the adrenaline rush of cold-blooded killing without a penalty. Our society teaches kids the value of life; so go figure why a beautiful alpaca looks like an adrenaline rush to these lost, ignorant kids.

On March 5, when I got my Hamilton JournalNews, my eyes caught the "Alpaca death to spur bill" article on the front page. My first thoughts were that the name of that bill should be "The Masterpiece Bill" — named for the alpaca. It seems appropriate. If there is no other bill called "The Masterpiece Bill," then that's what it should be called.