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To: rosenfan
"Not all serious citizens hunt."

As I said in #35, "My numbers reflect reality for the [very rural] region in which I live."

The beauty of our constitutional system is that each of us is free to decide to what extent we will choose to exercise our rights. I respect your choice -- whatever that is.

OTOH, I have zero tolerance for any other citizen's (or the government's) effort to impose their own limitation on my rights (or yours, for that matter).

FWIW, I stopped hunting in the mid-1970s -- for reasons that seem right to me.

OTOH, given the present instability of our economy, I have elected to greatly enlarge the size of our vegetable garden. And I have retained my hunting equipment (and have maintained my skills) so that, should the need arise, we will not be limited to a vegetarian diet... (BTW, during the rationing in WWII, my family lived quite well on our "Victory Garden", home-canned food, and the chickens and rabbits we raised -- supplemented by the game and fish we harvested.)

Again, those choices are ours -- and no one else's...

38 posted on 10/02/2008 9:18:03 AM PDT by TXnMA (To anger a conservative: lie about him. To anger a liberal: tell the truth...)
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To: TXnMA
I would be surprised if even in very rural areas the majority of gunowners hunted. A quick google search said that only 6% of Americans hunted as of 2001. That having been said, I largely agree with you in regard to rights.

The only disagreement that I might have with you would be in your zero tolerance of any limitation on these rights. Assuming that we're talking about hunting, does that mean that you don't think the government should be able to (for instance) impose hunting seasons? That is, after all, a government-imposed limitation.

41 posted on 10/02/2008 9:57:14 AM PDT by rosenfan
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