BOWHUNTING BANNED!!!!!
03-06-2005, 10:05 AM
#31
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Williamsport Md USA
Posts: 419
RE: BOWHUNTING BANNED!!!!!
SniperP1, Lets not discuss firearms now, that would take this topic in totally different direction.
What a lot of people don't understand is that they won't just come and flat out ban hunting. They are slowly taking things away little by little till nothing will be left. I gave examples that it's happening right now!
Hunting license sales are dropping and it shows that Bowhunters are an extremely small minority, those that are policitial involved is even smaller. To prove my point here's a test for you. At your next club meeting (you are a member somewhere?) ask how many people are registered voters who have voted, also remind them voter registration is public information. You'll be lucky to have a third of the people raise their hands. You really want to see sparks fly, propose that no one can join unless they are registered to vote. I've seen the results first hand.
When you have 10% of the general population prohunting and less than a third of them bowhunts and only about a third of that group is involved with the polictial process you're looking at like 1 in a 100 actively promoting bowhunting. Now add that there is also 10% of the general population that totally opposes hunting and you see whats against you.
Simple fact is our elected officials vote on behalf of the people who keep them in office. They probable don't hunt so they only know about bowhunting by what they hear.
HSUS will not need to spend $97 million to come after you. They have what, maybe a thousand lawyers on payroll now who only need to pay the filing fees to sue game departments or seek an injunction to stop a portion of bowhunting for being unnecessarily cruel. All they need is to do is find a judge who's willing to hear the arguement and bowhunting could be stopped till it works its way through the court system. Then if they happen to win one battle they can take that decision to build another case. You think its possible the game department might give up certain parts of the sport to save themselves some money? Look how the anti-gun issue has evolve.
What can you do?
1) First, get involved. Don't depend on someone else to do it.
2) Join a local club or get together with a couple of buddies and start one, then make sure your involved with state and regional issues.
3) Promote the sport. Get others shooting archery than talk about bowhunting. Invite your elected officials to speak at a club meeting or attend a picnic than get them shooting as well.
4) Promote Bowhunter Education.
Bowhunters are inheritly not pro-active. They don't get in front of the public promoting the sport and generally only get vocal to defend themselves. You can't win only playing defense.
What a lot of people don't understand is that they won't just come and flat out ban hunting. They are slowly taking things away little by little till nothing will be left. I gave examples that it's happening right now!
Hunting license sales are dropping and it shows that Bowhunters are an extremely small minority, those that are policitial involved is even smaller. To prove my point here's a test for you. At your next club meeting (you are a member somewhere?) ask how many people are registered voters who have voted, also remind them voter registration is public information. You'll be lucky to have a third of the people raise their hands. You really want to see sparks fly, propose that no one can join unless they are registered to vote. I've seen the results first hand.
When you have 10% of the general population prohunting and less than a third of them bowhunts and only about a third of that group is involved with the polictial process you're looking at like 1 in a 100 actively promoting bowhunting. Now add that there is also 10% of the general population that totally opposes hunting and you see whats against you.
Simple fact is our elected officials vote on behalf of the people who keep them in office. They probable don't hunt so they only know about bowhunting by what they hear.
HSUS will not need to spend $97 million to come after you. They have what, maybe a thousand lawyers on payroll now who only need to pay the filing fees to sue game departments or seek an injunction to stop a portion of bowhunting for being unnecessarily cruel. All they need is to do is find a judge who's willing to hear the arguement and bowhunting could be stopped till it works its way through the court system. Then if they happen to win one battle they can take that decision to build another case. You think its possible the game department might give up certain parts of the sport to save themselves some money? Look how the anti-gun issue has evolve.
What can you do?
1) First, get involved. Don't depend on someone else to do it.
2) Join a local club or get together with a couple of buddies and start one, then make sure your involved with state and regional issues.
3) Promote the sport. Get others shooting archery than talk about bowhunting. Invite your elected officials to speak at a club meeting or attend a picnic than get them shooting as well.
4) Promote Bowhunter Education.
Bowhunters are inheritly not pro-active. They don't get in front of the public promoting the sport and generally only get vocal to defend themselves. You can't win only playing defense.
03-06-2005, 12:04 PM
#32
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 1,498
RE: BOWHUNTING BANNED!!!!!
I wonder how many of the freaks live in the burbs. The habitat is being taken away at an amazing pace but thats ok with them as long as they get their big house in the burbs. These people need to see how harsh nature can be. Let them see thousands of animals starving to death because of over population. They live in a Disney cartoon and have no clue about nature. There was a piece in the paper today about 3 kids getting killed from hitting a deer here in Ky. If it were their kids getting killed maybe they would think more about population control. On the other hand these people value an animals life above human life so I dout even that would change their mind.
