Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Killing contests must be banned

Thank you for the Sept. 21 editorial “Area municipalities should stand against pointless wildlife-killing events.”

Everything you wrote was true and correct. There is no place in Nevada for these barbaric contests. Hopefully, the other three cities you mentioned will follow what the Reno City Council did by passing a ban on these contests.

There is no way a compromise can be reached by the Board of Wildlife Commissioners to make these contests acceptable. If the seven out of the nine commission members who are hunters cannot agree that passing a ban is the right thing to do, it is time for the Department of Wildlife, with its many animal biologists, to step in and help the commission to understand the situation and ban these contests.