Yes, well said Andrew. It is an outrage, as bad as the gun lobby mob in
USA.
Tony
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From:
On Behalf Of Andrew
Stafford
Sent: Friday, 29 March 2013 3:50 PM
To: net. au
Subject: Shooters
Let's be clear about this and stop pussyfooting around, please: anyone who
shoots a swan or an avocet - an avocet, for God's sake! - in or out of duck
shooting season doesn't need more stringent ID testing; they need to be in
the clink. Now, that might sound like an over-reaction - OK, it is an
overreaction- but if half of what is supposed to have happened at Boort is
true, the apologist rhetoric about birders and hunters working together for
conservation doesn't sit terribly well with me. Stop kidding yourselves
folks; we're not talking about a group that cares one whit about wildlife,
we're talking about a bunch of rednecks, plain and simple. I acknowledge
that not all hunters are so indiscriminate, but the fact is if this had
happened under the Bracks or even the Brumby governments a scandal such as
this (and it is a scandal) would have probably been the tipping point that
would have seen duck hunting finally banned in Victoria. As it is, the fact
that it's happened under a conservative regime at a time when the print
media is either unwilling or unable to commit the required investigative
resources to tell the full story will probably save it for a decade longer.
More's the pity.
Andrew
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