BigGovernment: While Donald Trump was winning the day nationally on November 8, voters in Kansas and Indiana were enshrining that hunting and fishing are constitutional rights.
The Wichita Eagle reports that an overwhelming majority of voters supported amending the Kansas constitution to include a right to hunt and fish. The push to do so arose after lawmakers watched anti-hunting activists in other states use lawsuits to diminish hunting or do away with certain hunts altogether.
State Representative Adam Lusker (D-Frontenac) pushed the amendment, which he described as a “pre-emptive move.” He “pointed to a recent lawsuit filed by a California-based animal rights group to stop a western Kansas coyote hunting contest as proof that hunting needs as much protection as possible.”
Kansas’ right to hunt and fish amendment protects the right to trap, too. more here
But you can’t license a right. I see judicial trouble ahead. And the animal rights folks will utilize this.
NRA sent us 2 bumper stickers to us momths before elections to promote this. Yes, our vechicles wore them.
Those are God-given rights. Kudos to the states that recognize this. The rest of the states need to remove head from ass.
Happiness is a limit and a warm gun.
And yet the anti-hunting loonies completely ignore the millions of prey animals brutalized every day by bloodthirsty, depraved predators.
Kinda like our precious gun grabbers completely ignore our inner cities, if you think about it.
It’s a dangerous mind set thinking the constitution grants rights.
The phrase “constitutional rights” annoys the heck out of me.
Because that way of thinking leads to thinking our rights are only those listed and granted by government.
That’s the communist way of thinking. The constitution of the old Soviet Union listed and granted people rights. If they weren’t listed – the didn’t exist.
The American way to think is that we have the right and the freedom to do whatever the heck we want to do as long as it doesn’t interfere with or damage the freedom or assets of someone else.
The US Constitution doesn’t grant rights. It largely list limited powers of the three branches of government. The first ten amendments are called (misnamed) the Bill of Rights. But they don’t grant rights. Those 10 amendments are really a bill or list of restrictions on government power. The Bill of Government Power Restrictions. ( largely ignored today)
Yeah, i know, it’s a subtle difference. But I think it’s an important destination to always remember. Least people start thinking rights are granted by the government (the all powerful) and not a gift from God. ( the real all powerful). It’s more important than the subtle difference between asking “are you full ?”, or ” are you no longer no longer hungry?”, when you’re trying to avoid over eating.
Bottom line. It’s encouraging to read that the citizens of Indiana and Kansas have Recognized the Need to Remove Government Power from Interfering with Their Hunting & Fishing Rights.
There are valid reasons to have limits on hunting and fishing, even if they are rights. Licenses, however – well, that’s just a form of taxation.
IMHO.
the constitution is supposed to restrict the government in this country not grow it.
won’t matter, the extremists will overrule it just like the supreme court fucked over Americans by fucking up the preemptive Defense Of Marriage Act.
I disagree with (and voted against) this on election day because this puts the legislature in control of a RIGHT. Here’s the text:
Provides that the right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife is a valued part of Indiana’s heritage and shall be forever preserved for the public good. Provides that the people have a right, which includes the right to use traditional methods, to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife, subject only to the laws prescribed by the general assembly and rules prescribed by virtue of the authority of the general assembly to: (1) promote wildlife conservation and management; and (2) preserve the future of hunting and fishing. Provides that hunting and fishing are the preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife. Provides that this constitutional amendment does not limit the application of any laws relating to trespass or property rights. This proposed amendment has been agreed to by one general assembly.
Note the sentence “subject only to the laws prescribed by the general assembly and rules prescribed by virtue of the authority of the general assembly…” – they just opened a HUGE hole in what used to be a right for all sorts of monkey business the same way “common sense gun control”, limiting magazine size, or requiring a permit and background check to buy ammunition don’t stop you from exercising your 2nd amendment right, they just make it damn difficult and expensive.
Laws and rules indeed, and only an additional amendment can remove this crap. And don’t think for a minute some gun-grabber group won’t demand that ONLY traditional methods such as black powder or bow-hunting is allowed. Of course, the habitat damage from game overpopulation won’t be taken into account and will require additional government measures to handle, so win-win for the regressives.