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Sunday Hunting Still A Hot Topic

   Written by on February 27, 2014 at 11:09 am

logo lettersI will be brief. You can’t get any more local that letting property owners decide. Property owners don’t need to switch the state telling when you can hunt to a BOS telling them when they can’t hunt their own property

Tom Wheeler

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Dear Sir,

Just finished reading your latest article regarding Sunday hunting. You make an assertion that the small group of 6000 pro Sunday hunting folks are solely responsible for “influencing” politicians. Be advised there are scores of folks across this Commonwealth of Virginia that have voiced their disgust for many years about how the government has denied personal property rights. I agree that how one uses their own land should be left to those at the local level. It does not get any more local than a landowner. Perhaps you should stop being spoon fed by a certain individual from the VaHDA who has gotten his butt kicked by spreading lies and propaganda up and down the Capitol steps.

Just more dribble from someone who has no clue nor cares to research any further than getting some biased opinions from a lobbyist for an article. Pitiful.

Chris Collins, Short Pump, VA

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I do not know where Avereet Jones gets his information on Sunday Hunting but he is totally and completely wrong. I think I know and the name Kirby Burch comes to mind or the Virginia Hunting Dog Alliance comes up too.  There are thousands more people who have pushed  for this bill  other than just the 6000 he tries to say are the only ones for it.  Those exact same words have been said by Mr. Burch to legislators time and time again.

Mr. Jones also says the local option is the only way this should be done. He fails to say that there is a local option already in the bill passed by the House and Senate. But according to Mr. Jones that is not good enough.  The option already in the bill is the property owners themselves determining who can or cannot hunt on their property.  What better local option than that. Owners determining what can or cannot be done on their individual property.

Please in the future in order to show some sort of journalistic integrity have your writers do their own research and have them talk to multiple sources for his information. Taking the word of anti hunting lobbyists and anti hunting groups as his only information is immediately known by what he writes.  He should have just the name Kirby Burch as a co writer of this article. Very poor writing and article.  This is twice he has done this and shows no integrity.

Jerry Frawley

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Sir:

Let me be sure I understand. I have long experience with life and government. But none withTwitter. So maybe I am out of touch.

We aren’t handling mental health issues well or wounded veterans.

Yet if I work I pay taxes, but if I don’t work much or at all 50 million of us get foodstamps and who knows how many get welfare or other federal or state support.

I know of a welfare family that got a dump truck full of free firewood from the state before winter and sold the firewood before dusk.

Who did you vote for?

Sincerely, Terry Miller, Keysville, Va.

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