People don't know about hunting at all. All they see is a dead animal, a smiling human, and to those with weak stomachs or who don't understand, it's repulsive. I get it. People never see blood or guts because they don't have to hunt. I understand why someone could see that and think it's horrific. They never dealt with blood or death in their lives, and as such hunting is alien to them. When you eat a burger you don't think about the cow being slaughtered for it. It's a few steps closer to home with deer. I get it. But I always explain to them my reasoning for supporting hunters and hunting.
I always like to ask them- would you rather eat a cow that's been kept on a farm, fed an unnatural diet to fatten it up, and then gets herded into commercial slaughterhouses? Or would you rather eat a deer that lived a long healthy natural life, going wherever it wanted to go, fighting, continuing it's bloodline, living as our creator (or "nature") intended it to?
Unless they're vegans, in which case, tell them 1. plants know when they're being eaten 2. Nut up, humans are omnivores, we need meat. Try feeding a lion kale, you freak.
I met a guy who fished but thought hunting was bad. My best guess is he drew the line at legs, which is kinda screwed up. Some people really are just out there.
Why would you ever send death threats to a gun owner?
I have never understood why people threaten cold blooded killers, who wake up a 3 am to sit in a tree for four hours in the freezing cold, who make chest cavity shots from tens or hundreds of yards away with a variety of weapons designed to kill instantly, and then hang, gut, drain, and skin large game in the wee hours of the morning, before butchering the carcass into tiny, steak sized pieces and make the rest of the body disappear without a trace. These people spot animals with a much more refined flight response, with better scent, sight, and hearing, and stalk them over hundreds of yards to get the perfect shot without the animal ever knowing they existed.
Seriously if hunters were evil, we'd know it.