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 ?
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.