Motivation political

A few months ago, the front page of The Spokesman-Review sports supplement displayed an enormous bloody bull elk, with its tongue hanging out, grotesquely sprawled over the length of its hunter’s tiny compact car.

Outdoors Editor Rich Landers was responsible for running this unflattering photo of reckless driving and its coincidental indictment of hunter disrespect for great game like elk. Rich even wrote that all this constituted marvelously delightful hunting elan.

Now Rich suggests it is “logical” to oppose hunter use of perfectly legal rifles that resemble “terrorist” weapons (which, of course, includes every rifle made) because of a deep concern for the “image” of hunting and hunters. Want to close that barn door, Rich, lest the horse escape back in?

Landers then peevishly pouts about the NRA and the “gun industry.” It seems they dared use democratically traditional boycotts in opposition to outdoors writer Jim Zumbo’s version of the silly political-correctness jingo that gun misuse is a product of firearm design, rather than the brain wired to the trigger finger.

Yet Landers evidently suffers no equivalent compunction in abusing a “sports” column to vent his politically motivated bigotry against the NRA and the “gun world.”

Physician, heal thyself.

William Slusher

Okanogan