Art Eatman
Moderator In Memoriam
We had the Varmint Hunting thread, and then a cite in CatsDieNow's thread, "A resident landowner or tenant may take, without a permit, a beaver, mink, muskrat, long-tailed weasel, red fox, gray fox, opossum, skunk, or raccoon that is discovered damaging property; you must report the taking of the animal to a conservation officer within 72 hours. The conservation officer will direct you as how to dispose of the animal." as law in Indiana.
This gets me to wondering if I'm sort of alone in being disgusted with this latter control of people.
I'm against casual blasting of any critter that is not any problem to crops or livestock. I like to hunt coyotes, but they're in competition with me for quail--and I won't work at it until the coyote population is notably lessened. IOW, I limit myself and do so without advice from others.
So, with that in mind, and comparing the above quoted regulation with Texas regs, it seems to me that a lot of our law is not crime against person nor crime against property; it's crime against government. Crime against the "Mommy knows best!" beauracracy, if you will.
Am I all alone in my resentments? Offbase?
, Art
This gets me to wondering if I'm sort of alone in being disgusted with this latter control of people.
I'm against casual blasting of any critter that is not any problem to crops or livestock. I like to hunt coyotes, but they're in competition with me for quail--and I won't work at it until the coyote population is notably lessened. IOW, I limit myself and do so without advice from others.
So, with that in mind, and comparing the above quoted regulation with Texas regs, it seems to me that a lot of our law is not crime against person nor crime against property; it's crime against government. Crime against the "Mommy knows best!" beauracracy, if you will.
Am I all alone in my resentments? Offbase?
, Art