Blade Root,
You're correct - being in the US, I know little about those sort of eradication efforts, but the first few posts said nothing about that context of location and/or the problem at hand - only about shooting living things from a helicopter and how "hard" that is. As you may surmise I am no fan of killing animals for sport, and that's how the opening posts read to me.
I think that if you took some average person off the street that knows nothing of such things and let them read those posts, they'd be horrified too.
I will try harder to keep an open mind now that you have ?enlightened? me. Just keep that bloody thing pointed away from me.
dB.