BC Thoughts 

Prairie farmers with an "infestation" of gophers are those who have foolishly shot the wolves, cougars, coyotes and other predators of gophers while reducing food for eagles, birds of prey and snakes- all things that eat gophers.

A good ole' prairie kid with a 22 a shootin' gophers fer pa is a menace to life forms.  It's just another sad excuse some use to demand unrestricted access to guns and ammunition.

Most of our farmers, incidentally, are not in any danger of having tax regulations changed.  That talking point is the political equivalent of; let's kill all the gophers so the crops will grow and the animals won't fall into them there holes.