Princeton Township must end its deadly, ineffective persecution of our deer and start opening its mind to new ideas for the advancement of peaceful co-existence between humans and wildlife. Your informative reporting of this obscene act is terrible in its own right but the Letters to the Editor for the most part display a sickening joy in the killing spree sanctioned by the Mayor and town officials. Everyone seems to be discussing this brutal act in an abstract manner and with a sang froid, no doubt brought on by too much money, too many cocktails and too little compassion. The letter of the avid gardener sticks in my mind. She goes on endlessly about deer coming onto her property and nibbling her blooms.
Death is the only recourse.
The deer must be stopped. Deer don't like the scent of this. Then there are letters from the folk who fear Lyme Disease. Little do they know or care that deer aren't the only host for the tick. Any furry critter in the yard could carry the tick as well as most birds.