Originally Posted by
DROX
VAhunter,
I would like to personally thank you and others like you for the time and effort you put forward in getting the message out on this issue. I, too, really thought that this time would be the time that the old blue law went to blue law heaven!
The silver lining that I did find this time around was that there was much more discussion amongst us, the hunters, as to the real cause of this limitation to our state "rights." For too many years and around too many hunting camps the word has usually been that them "dern liberals and bunny huggers are goofing it up for all of us, let them go back to their commune." Now, I do understand that there are several left wing groups that would rather hunting come to a complete end, but now we also know who else is involved in this wacky restriction.
I can already see it now : The dog hunters/church folks do not want Sunday hunting, the bike riders/nature hikers don't want Saturday hunting....... Before you know it we will run out of days of the week and hunting will be gone forever! Now this may appear a bit dramatic, however, if all of us hunting group, splinters do not present a unified front Sunday may not be the only day we will not be able to hunt.
Once again thank you for helping to educate all of us and keeping us politically involved!
dan
Thanks, but I really don't feel as if I do enough to warrant a special thanks. There are others who do much more than I do. ButchA and brewman555(off the top of my head) have done quite a bit of lobbying themselves. I'm glad you can see there has been progress on this issue, as it is easy to just say the heck with it and forget about it. I truly believe Virginia hunters are closer to being able to hunt on Sundays than we have ever been.