SHOOTING INCIDENT AT STEVENSON UNIVERSITY WAS A CASE OF ANIMAL CRUELTY

The two students involved in the shooting incident at Stevenson University yesterday were not hunting and it is completely irresponsible for WBAL and any other news organizations to be reporting that they were. What they were doing is committing an act of animal cruelty which is illegal. It is also illegal to actually hunt ducks and geese out of season but in this case they were not hunting anyway. They were just inflicting pain onto these animals with pellet air rifles for their own sick, demented enjoyment. These are ducks and geese that are probably used to being fed by normal students and staff and just sat there while these two demented young men shot at them. These two students should be charged with animal cruelty by the local authorities and expelled by the university. If the local authorities actually want to consider what they were doing hunting, (which I strongly disagree with,) then they should be charged with shooting waterfowl without a hunting license and doing it out of season. There are also laws on the books that specifically ban shooting animals, (hunting,) within a certain distance of residences and businesses which I'm sure they broke being on a college campus. The bottom line here is that the authorities were apparently so overly relieved that this was not a college shooting scenario that they overlooked the obvious laws that were broken. These two sick young men need to be charged with every law that they did break and learn the lesson that animal cruelty is against the law!!