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[Travlr]

Yeah those folks in the city think it's fine to turn problematic animals loose in the rural areas, but when they reach the city you start seeing people scared and worried about dangerous animals in the city.
Not to long ago it made the Lexington news about a coyote in a neighborhood.
All of a sudden people were scared for their children and pets, yet people in surrounding counties have been dealing with coyotes for decades.
Same with black bears. it makes the news and people in the city get interviewed about being scared of them when they've been several surrounding area counties for quite a while and those peoples concerns are never heard.

It all comes down to votes. Urban people outnumber rural people.

From google: Urban areas make up only 3 percent of the entire land area of the country but are home to more than 80 percent of the population. Conversely, 97 percent of the country's land mass is rural but only 19.3 percent of the population lives there.

And of course most of the 19.3 percent of rural people aren't living on the farm, but in small towns. They aren't living with the direct impacts of livestock loss, except as it affects their ability to sell their products to a livestock producer that has lost profits from the loss of animals.

Ya know, Democracy is great... but isn't the law supposed to be sympathetic to minorities and cognizant of how the majority can take advantage of them? Does the ACLU ever take on rural interests when the urban majority throws their votes toward something that only affects rural people?

 

[Ouachita]

No democracy is not great. It is majority/mob rule. That is what killed Christ.

 

[MurraysMutts]

If we could just catch em all and turn em loose in California, New York and D.C, we could solve a WHOLE BUNCH of problems all at once! And maybe some in Chicago for good measure

 

[Ky hills]

If we could just catch em all and turn em loose in California, New York and D.C, we could solve a WHOLE BUNCH of problems all at once! And maybe some in Chicago for good measure

Good idea, send a few a long with a few grizzly bears here to our city's downtown too. Maybe that would scare the loudmouth troublemakers out.