The fact that people tresspass has nothing to do with allowing the hunting of feral cats. By not passing this law, tresspassing will not go away. The two are not related in any way. People who do not hunt other game are not going to take up cat hunting, so the number of people that would tresspass would stay the same.
Pages of people shot by hunters? If it averages more than 2 per year in WI I would be shocked. Several years no hunters died even from heart attack or other causes.
Well almost all anti-hunters I am aware of have their land posted. Yes hunters post their land also, but that is to preserve it use for themselves and not the general population. I have hunted all over WI, for a very long time, and never been refused after asking permission.(From a property owner who is a hunter.)
Hunters aren't going to win this one.
The two largest anti-hunting groups joined forces last year, with a budget of $100 million, to challenge hunters and their activities in court and create wedge issues in individual states to end hunting in America.
(Check with the US Sportsmen's Alliance for details.)
The Humane Society of the United States is laughing its head off because this issue will recruit thousands of new anti-hunters in Wisconsin, while hunters are portrayed as goons killing kittens. Can hunters win support and sympathy with that picture on the six o’clock news? The propaganda press and HSUS will massacre hunters in the press.
This is an agitprop operation by the anti-hunters at HSUS to get property owners and hunters at each other’s throats. Property owners are not going to swing open their gates so hunters can hunt cats
The feral cat issue should have been handed to trappers, not hunters.
(See Jeff Crane, policy director of the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, for more info on the anti-hunters and their tactics.)