Hunters like to overpower the meek and defenseless

The parallels prevalent in all three states support a hypothesis that both hunting and child abuse reflect the degree to which a social characteristic called dominionism prevails in a particular community defined dominionism as an attitude in which "primary satisfactions [are] derived from mastery or control over animals," a definition which other investigators have extended to include the exercise of "mastery or control" over women and children.

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" With respect to the notion that animal torturers and slaughterers are driven by their terror of their latent desire to engage in sex with animals, while it is merely idle supposition, the idea has merit. Most hunters, vivisectors, and the like skulk and slink about, posing as decent human beings and fearing marginalization from peers or society. Hence, rather than risk being ridiculed and ostracized for performing fellatio on a buck or having intercourse with a rhesus monkey, they torment and/or kill the subjects of their desire, thereby eliminating the beings whom they hold to be responsible for their shameful urges and temporarily satisfying their psychological compulsions for power, sexual gratification and revenge. Think about it." Jason Miller




"A third type of serial killers is the Lust Killer. The lust killer is often driven to kill due to a sexual motivation. A fourth subgroup of serial killers is known as a Thrill Killer. A thrill killer takes lives because they enjoy the experience of killing. A fifth sort of serial killer is the Power Seeker Killer, a person who enjoys having total control over the fate of their victims." Killing For Sports - Inside the Minds of Serial Killers - Pat Brown

You can see the similarities in sports hunting and serial killers personality and their reasons for killing. There is even an article called "The Killing Field" click here and she writes..
"For me and many of the people who contact me to offer their support, killing innocent animals for self-gratification is no different from killing innocent people for self-gratification. By extension, then, trophy hunting--the repeated killing of wild animals--should surely be viewed as serial killing. And in the same moral light humanity's thinking is, I feel beginning to approach such a level of morality." Gareth Paterson

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