Texas Shooting Burros

Natalie McKittrick

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NC Times

Texas is shooting donkeys, stirring burro backlash

http://www.nctimes.com/news/national/article_b82c37d5-9777-558c-bc13-080bebbd1242.html

Texas is shooting their Burros

Texas is shooting their famous free-roaming burros. I have found that the Texas park rangers are deliberatly trying to wipeout hundreds of their free-roaming donkeys. They have killed 130 so far. Why? Because they beleive that the donkeys that wander over from Mexico simly don't belong. (How do the donkeys get over but the people don't?) Texas estimates that about 300 burros to be destuctive intruders. The mexican donkeys have been accused of hogging forage and lapping up precious water from the drought starved mountians. Where as the citizens who would like to save the burros have made one of the most popular petitions ever on www.change.com with more that 94,000 supporters.

This connects to the Bill of Rights in what we are studying. This connects to the first amendment's baisic rights. The right to petition. It also connects to the second right. The right to bear arms. It connects to the right to petition because they formed a petition on change.com and they were... well free to do it. It connects to the right to bear arms because they used a .308-caliber bolt-action rifle in order to kill them.

This connects to my life as a citizen as well. When I go to my house in Arizonia we often see the burros walking around in their packs or by themselfs. Once we even saw one five feet away from me that was a mother and her young. They are completely unable to defend themselves and put trust in others. I could not imagine killing one.

My opinion on the subject would be that it is complestly unnessesary. Honestly are we going to start killing people next because there are to many, they are not naitive to this country, and because we are killing the ozone layer. No! Who do you think started the drought in the first place. Most likely us! killing defenceless animals because they simply don't belong is not a probable cause! Those donkeys also attract tourists to Texas because the Big Bend is inhabited by them! Also I would like to ask how the donkeys get accross the border and the people don't? Yeah thought so. We don't walk around shooting illegal imigrants because they are using up our resourses. No! We don't! So why should we kill a load of donkeys for it! We shouldn't!