Tennessee is trying to constitutionalize the right to hunt
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drakeshooter
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I looked to see if this had been posted before and couldn't find it. Surely we've talked about what TN is doing. Regardless, this is great.
HUNTZVT
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Seems like we discussed this in a previous thread a few months ago. Not sure if it was TN, or another state, but I agreed with it then, and I agree with it now.
Wildcat
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Ir really doesn't change anything at all.
Here's #3
(3) The right of the people to hunt and fish shall be subject to reasonable regulations and restrictions as the Legislature may prescribe:
Right now all the game rules and laws are set by the State Legislatures along with their game depts and commissions. At any time the State Legislatures can OUTLAW hunting in their state under the so called right to hunt amendment just like they can do today without it.
It's the same as all others most states have, it's nothing but a "feel good amendment"
Try this on and see how it fits; " The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall be subject to reasonable regulations and restrictions as the Legislature may prescribe"
I don't like it either.
Here's #3
(3) The right of the people to hunt and fish shall be subject to reasonable regulations and restrictions as the Legislature may prescribe:
Right now all the game rules and laws are set by the State Legislatures along with their game depts and commissions. At any time the State Legislatures can OUTLAW hunting in their state under the so called right to hunt amendment just like they can do today without it.
It's the same as all others most states have, it's nothing but a "feel good amendment"
Try this on and see how it fits; " The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall be subject to reasonable regulations and restrictions as the Legislature may prescribe"
I don't like it either.
smashdn
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Constitutions can be amended and parts rescinded.
doemasters18
Fawn
hey man i just graduated from murray....did you go there?
buckfever
12 pointer
I disagree. The state legislatures are not the only bodies that can prohibit hunting. It's a fact that a number of local gov'ts have banned all hunting within their jurisdictions, regardless of size or safety. It's happened in Louisville, Northern Kentucky and Owensboro.
If the right to hunt was constitutionalized, that would end.
The state has to be able to control the times we hunt or the number of animals we harvest, or there would be no game laws. It would be unconstitutional for KDFWR or the legislature to eliminate the game seasons in your hypothetical, because the state constitution bans you from doing indirectly what you cannot do directly. It's sort of like legislatures trying to ban the sale of ammunition. It would be shot down (pardon the pun) as a backdoor attempt to abridge the right to bear arms.
It is a lot more important than a "feel good" amendment.
trust me
Troubled Loner
I heard Stumbo's sound bite on the radio this morning. He turned this into an "Obama won't take your guns away" issue, which was disappointing. He said he'd bet his shotgun against anybody's that at the end of Obama's term, we'd still be owning our guns. I think that is a cheap and disingenuous treatment of the the issue.
