With Disney’s continual release of the classics, it’s safe to say that most of us have seen “Bambi.”

Even if you haven’t seen the cartoon movie, it would not be unusual to see one of his real-life look alikes running along any Iowa highway.

Sometimes you see the deer not running but lying along the side of the road.

Iowans are crying out: “There’s too many deer,” “The deer population is out of control.”

State regulators heard the cries of Iowans Thursday when they voted to give sharpshooters more time to thin the deer herd in Iowa City.

The city argued that sharpshooters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture had only managed to kill 22 deer during their two days.

Opposition from animal rights activists protesting killing deer may block the plan and send the sharpshooters home.

Who’s right in this battle, once again, between humans and nature?

Is it that the deer population is growing or is it that due to more urban expansion, we are seeing more deer because we are taking their homes?

Urban expansion may be a factor, but the overwhelming factor is that the deer population is growing because there is not enough predators to maintain their place on the food chain.

Communities have tried other methods — such as tranquilizing and relocating deer, killing them with bows and arrows or injecting does with contraceptive darts — but officials in Iowa City decided sharpshooting would be more humane and effective in quickly controlling the deer population.

It isn’t hard to deny that deer are one of the most beautiful animals to have to kill.

The big, brown eyes and swiftness of a doe will bring an “aaaahhhh” from almost anyone’s mouth.

But the vision of a buck’s long, sharp horns crashing into the front windshield of a car will make most reconsider the dangers of an out of control deer population.

Not only would allowing the sharpshooting of deer be a solution to people’s problems, but it would also make deer more comfortable.

Right now, there’s a Bambi out there crowded in one of Iowa’s wooded forests scrambling to obtain enough food to survive the winter.

There would be no need for the Bambi to die of starvation or by the front grill of a semi-truck if sharpshooting was allowed.