California is on the verge of becoming the first state to impose a full ban on hunting with lead bullets -- with environmentalists and gun-rights advocates squaring off as Gov. Jerry Brown decides whether to sign the legislation.
The state already has a ban on lead-bullet hunting in eight counties with an endangered condor population. But the new proposal, overwhelmingly approved this month by the Democrat-controlled General Assembly, would impose a statewide ban on all hunting.
Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown has until Oct. 12 to decide whether to sign the legislation, which would not be fully implemented for at least several years. Environmentalists and other supporters have broadened their argument beyond protecting the prehistoric condor bird, saying the lead bullets, and the left-behind lead fragments on which animals feed, are making their way into the country’s edible meat supply.
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The National Rifle Association and other critics have posed a list of reasons for stopping the ban including that the 2008 studies never conclusively linked consumption with illness in humans; copper bullets are more expensive; the state would lose millions of dollars in hunting license fees that pay for conservation efforts; and no credible evidence exists to prove lead bullet fragments are poisoning condors and other scavenging birds.
"These condors are flocking around … dump sites,” NRA lawyer Chuck Michel told the San Francisco Chronicle. “They are vultures. They also congregate around lookout towers, and there are pictures of them eating the chipped lead paint. The point is, there are alternate sources of lead in the environment which are probably the source of the lead."Read the Full Story HERE.
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4 comments:
Moonbeam and Gaffing Nuisance will do the senseless thing, as usual, and make this into a law. After all, the dumb apes signed the bathroom bill to allow peeping toms into girls' showers and bathrooms because they allegedly "think" they're girls on any particular day.
I am so happy I moved from California. It's not the great state I once knew, but a mish mash of very bad polices and really, really bad laws that protect no one.
Ellie.
California really has become an alternate Universe. A place where everything wrong is right and right is wrong.
Governor Moonbeam has evolved over the years into..ah..Governor Moonbeam. He and his fellow cronies have made ruining a state...an art form. Ronnie wouldn't recognize it now.
People who moved out of California into Oregon have told me Oregon is even worse. They tell me the media leans so far left, yet the Oregonians think it's normal, and anything that really is normal is from the far right wing extremists. That shows how far the whole West Coast has gone. Myfoxmystere and I have just posted a link to this blog, along with our artistic rendering of moonbeam and his pet monkey Gavin.
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