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Posted on 03/19/2009 7:26:25 PM PDT by neverdem
| Proposed Bill Attacks Hunting in Maryland! |
| Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
Please Contact the Members of the House Environmental Matters Committee Immediately!On Wednesday, March 18 at 1:00 pm, the Maryland House Environmental Matters Committee held a hearing on House Bill 1309, and will vote on the bill in the near future. HB 1309 would arbitrarily expand the hunting “safety zone” from 150 yards to 300 yards from any occupied building. HB 1309 is sponsored by Delegate Barbara Frush (D-21) and Delegate James Hubbard (D-23A), two anti-hunting legislators whose goal is to end all hunting in Maryland. We must make our voices heard if we are going to defeat this anti-hunting measure and protect the future of hunting in Maryland. Please contact your Delegate Immediately and respectfully urge them to oppose HB 1309. Contact information can be found below. Delegate Maggie McIntosh (D-43) Delegate James E. Malone, Jr. (D-12A) Delegate Saqib Ali (D-39) Delegate Tom Hucker (D-20) Delegate Pamela G. Beidle (D-32) Delegate Stephen W. Lafferty (D-42) Delegate Elizabeth Bobo (D-12B) Delegate Doyle L. Niemann (D-47) Delegate Rudolph C. Cane (D-37A) Delegate H. Wayne Norman (R-35A) Delegate Alfred C. Carr, Jr. (D-18) Delegate Anthony J. O'Donnell (R-29C) Delegate Virginia P. Clagett (D-3A) Delegate Andrew Serafini (R-2A) Delegate Barbara Frush (D-21) Delegate Tanya T. Shewell (R-5A) Delegate Cheryl D. Glenn (D-45) Delegate Richard A. Sossi (R-36) Delegate Anne Healey (D-22) Delegate Dana M. Stein (D-11) Delegate Marvin E. Holmes, Jr. (D-23B) Delegate Paul S. Stull (R-4A) Delegate Michael H. Weir, Jr. (D-6) |
Hey! It’s just “change”. “Americans” said that they wanted “change”. Now, they’re going to get it whether they want it or not!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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It is beyond maddening how bills seem to crop up around every corner as the liberals try to control or stop everything that moves.
Step back a moment....Why? Why make it 150 feet instead of 300? What prompted this increase in footage?
Why not reduce it to 125? How many accidenst at 125 feet if any? we need a lot more to go on before making a decision....
Any concrete proof? any increase in accidents, any damages, any actual documented increase in the number of complaints from neighbors? (I know you are thinking, this is a logical thought process and they do operate using such thinking).
But what if we could systematically begin demanding evidence of a reason to do this, and until such irrefutable proof could be presented (probably does not exist), we would have to collect and study at a minimum say, 10 years of data in order to validate any study and make a decision based on comparing hard proof over the years...and even then we would have to define what how many complaints are a significant number etc etc etc
How can anyone just give into to their requests without questioning the reasons and asking WHY etc etc ?
What’s there to hunt in Maryland except maybe coons?
I wouldn’t shoot within 300 yards of an occupied building even if I was on the front porch of that building.
I’m not sure I’d make it the law, but hunting in the wilderness as opposeed to on the front lawn appeals more to me.
About 100,000 deer a year for starters.
Sorry — guess I haven’t been to that neck of the woods. Well, I hope you get one.
I got a tremendous herd of deer on my property.
Beautiful creatures, but a genuine nuisance to the loal farmers.
They taste very good!
Um.
Some years back, a friend of mine shot at a woodchuck from her rear deck. Given that she was shooting away from the house, I'm not quite clear how her action would have posed any danger whatsoever to anyone inside.
This is probably a result of a hunting accident here in VIRGINIA recently. A hunter fired a round into a pre-school. No one got hurt, and he was well beyond the 150 yard limit VA has, but he still must have been an idiot to fire in the direction of the school. “That squirrel was so big that I couldn’t see what was behind it,” I’m sure he told his hunting buddies. The MD guys realized they have the same law and used this incident to boost the “bullet-free” zone.
150 yards with a high-powered rifle is a very makeable shot. I’ve hit a coyote at 225 yards. You just don’t want to be shooting anywhere around a building. Plenty of open land in this country.
At all the hunting camps I’ve been to, the rule is the same. Your gun is unloaded before you get within at least a quarter of a mile of the camp.
There simply is no excuse for not knowing what is behind your target. In the vicinity of buildings, that can be a person you don’t notice.
Hunting is fun, but it’s no fun to be shot by an idiot.
Probably no danger as long as she wasn't shooting toward another building and knew that all occupants of the house were in the house or otherwise accounted for.
I'll shoot WITHIN my own house in self-defense. With hunting, it's a discretionary shot, and if you're sure you're not going to hit something you wish you hadn't, pull the trigger.
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