Dogs and baiting are a "red herring", a logical fallacy. The discussion is not merely because some other state allows it Pat. That's only a single facet of supportive evidence. It serves as an example for all the naysayers and all their excuses that in EVERY state that has tried inclusion over exclusion, there have been no problems. No evidence has been found to exist in any of those states to support any of the concerns we hear in PA. Restrictions on our Freedoms without any legitimate reason violates the very principles of Freedom. This law is as burdensome as the rejected proposed regulation that would have had bowhunters wearing Fl. Orange merely because they were hunters with a complete lack of any reason other than they are hunters.

This law cuts the available participation time for most hunters by 50%. It discourages participation. It's kept in place by legislators who give excuses that would be laughed at if they tried to apply them to any other activity or group. There's little difference in most of those excuses from the same emotional concerns that were voiced about removing the bans on Sunday Fishing, Sunday Baseball and Sunday Shopping that we also once had.

Yes Pat, you may not be, but your views on this issue are no less anti-hunting than they would be anti-baseball if you supported keeping a Sunday ban on baseball when all similar bans against all other activities had been removed.