Re: No Constitutional 'Right' To Hunt, Say Animal Advocates

Outdoors Magazine wrote:

> Prescott said the bill may expose the Pennsylvania Game Commission to
> lawsuits from hunters who do not think any restriction on hunting is
> reasonable - wanting larger bag limits, longer season dates, and additional
> species to shoot.
>
> "If one special interest group is allowed to use the state constitution for
> its purposes, the floodgates will be opened for other groups to follow,"
> said Prescott. "What's next? An amendment allowing the right to play golf or
> go shopping?"
>
> Only a handful of states across America have "right-to-hunt" amendments in
> their constitutions. Most states have rejected such measures.


Of those states that have passed such a right,, there have been no 
lawsuits from hunters, but there have been arrest made to anti hunting 
groups for their activities directed at disrupting the right to hunt.

These protesters get real prison sentences, when they interfere with a 
persons "right" to hunt or fish. This has basically shut down such 
dangerous activities, such as running around in the woods with air horns 
trying to scare the game, or willful destruction of hunter's property, 
and the act of putting nails in hunting roads, cutting trees across 
these roads.

If your state is proposing such a right, in their constitution, support 
it with everything you have, it has made a world of difference in my 
state that has passed such a "right"

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Boomerang Fishing Pro. , Straight Up Hooks ,
Straight Up Lures, Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights,
and the EZKnot          http://www.ezknot.com