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No Constitutional 'Right' To Hunt, Say Animal Advocates
No Constitutional 'Right' To Hunt, Say Animal Advocates
by ANC Staff and The Fund for Animals Posted on November 24, 2003 On November 18 the House Game and Fisheries Committee passed a joint resolution (H.B. 1512) proposing to amend the state constitution to grant residents of Pennsylvania the 'right' to hunt. The decision has provoked strong protest from The Fund for Animals, a national animal protection organization with 9,000 members and active supporters in Pennsylvania. "The constitution is a sacred document which shouldn't be used as a graffiti wall for political rhetoric," The Fund's National Director, Heidi Prescott, said. "To establish constitutional protections for recreational pursuits such as hunting is not only inappropriate, but redundant." she said. "Nearly a million people already hunt in Pennsylvania without having that 'right' enshrined in the constitution." 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. "Legislators in most states - even major hunting states - have had the common sense to defeat bills granting constitutional status to sport hunting," said Prescott. "The citizens of Pennsylvania do not need to add a silly provision protecting a recreational hobby." Sources The Fund for Animals www.fund.org November 18 Press Release -- James Ehlers Outdoors Magazine www.outdoorsmagazine.net |
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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 |
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