To the editor:

Last year, the Bristol Town Council made the controversial decision to allow bow and arrow deer hunting on four parcels of town owned land, and since that time, numerous town residents have voiced their disapproval through letters, emails, petitions, and other personal pleas to town council members asking them to reconsider their decision, but unfortunately at the last town council meeting, the five council members voted unanimously to allow the hunt to continue.

While I cannot fathom how any civilized human being can derive pleasure from shooting an arrow into a defenseless animal and chasing it down until it bleeds to death, I'm more upset that our town council members would vote unanimously to allow this cruel and inhumane activity on town-owned land.

Therefore, my suggestion to the numerous residents who oppose the decision by the town council and are outraged by their latest vote to continue this brutal and inhumane hunt would be to do what I plan on doing in November, and that would be expressing our outrage at the ballot box, and electing new town council members who will oppose the slaughter of defenseless animals.

Mike Proto
245 Chestnut St.