One NFL quarterback has pleaded guilty to dog fighting charges and killing dogs cruelly. He will probably go to jail and pay a fine but there seems to be an outcry to ban him from the NFL for life. It is disgusting to cause pain to any living creature and rightly he is being punished but I fail to understand why he should not be allowed to play foorball again. Hunting deer and wild boar is allowed in the US as is shooting birds. An animal shot and wounded may suffer from untold agony while trying to escape from the hunter. Shotguns are used for shooting birds which spray pellets over a wide area. Wounded birds fall to the ground and flop around desperately trying to fly while in pain and panic. Vice President Dick Cheney accidently shot his friend while out shooting birds and is now a butt of jokes. However, no one is asking him to resign for cruelty to birds. Cattle and sheep are stunned and then butchered to reduce suffering but fish are hauled out of water and allowed to slowly suffocate to death. Lobsters scream when they are thrown live into boiling water before being dressed and served in posh restaurants. Is there any evidence that dogs suffer more pain than birds, fish or lobsters? I am not advocating that everyone should turn vegetarian but it is one thing to kill a living organism for food and quite another to kill for sport. Deep sea fishing is only for rich people. Hire a boat on a summer's day, take food and beer, hook a marlin and play it for a couple of hours before hauling it out of water to suffocate to death. Great fun to let the fish run a little before jerking it back time and again. Unbelievable cruelty and great enjoyment, worth spending thousands of dollars for. What is nauseating is the hypocrisy and selective blindness. No wonder the gun lobby is unbeatable. Killing innocent students by a crazy fellow brings a shrug of shoulders but killing dogs causes a national outcry. Nuts.