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If you haven’t heard about the radical Initiative Petition IP13 in Oregon gathering steam to make a ballot appearance in 2022 then it’s time to sit up and pay attention. The signatures to get this initiative on the ballot are stacking up as we speak! (Colorado had a brush with this recently too but their Supreme Court shot it down.)
In a nutshell IP13 is aimed at making hunting, trapping, fishing, and select animal husbandry practices illegal and goes so far as to recommend that people engaged in the above activities or teaching them should become felons and sex offenders.
Now, that’s an incredibly broad stroke and when I first heard about this back in the spring I Googled it and was shocked and appalled at what I found. A simple Google search and 30 minutes of reading will reveal all you’ll need to know about IP13 including the whacko faction in support of this lunacy.
Although not much surprises me anymore I found myself wondering, how on earth did this happen? How are hunting, fishing and trapping criminal acts and how is artificially inseminating livestock a sex offense?
Then it hit me… I remembered wondering why a spate of states, beginning with Vermont in 1777 and most recently Utah in 2020, proposed and subsequently passed “Right to hunt and fish constitutional amendments”. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it and still do but I did not understand why they were necessary. I think I get it now.
Map of Right to Hunt States:
https://ballotpedia.org/Right_to_hunt_and_fish_constitutional_amendments
Looking at the map of “Right to Hunt” states there is zero coincidence that the two states where these radical petitions are rearing their ugly heads have no constitutional protections for hunting, fishing or trapping. Hmmmm, seems like legislators in Right to Hunt states saw the writing on the wall. In fact, when I dug a bit deeper that’s exactly what I unearthed…
“[The constitutional amendment] is a pre-emptive strike, so to speak, making it more difficult for any nutty animal rights activist or anti-hunting organization to target Oklahoma.
If the measure is approved, any attempt to ban the hunting of any traditional or non-threatened species in Oklahoma would require amending the constitution.
So if state lawmakers were to go insane and wanted to eliminate deer hunting, for example, it couldn’t be done without a vote of the people.”
—Ed Godfrey
Now, a petition is not a law and once Americans understand that this whacked out ideology would basically make cheeseburgers illegal I seriously doubt any real world impact will be seen from petitions like IP13. However, the folks behind this aren’t morons and they fully understand that by giving their petition a slick name like “The Abuse, Neglect, and Assault Exemption Modification and Improvement Act” and marketing it to the low hanging fruit of places like Portland they will easily get the signatures needed to put IP13 on the ballot and like Colorado learned with its precious wolves, once it’s on the ballot, anything goes!
Thank God I live in a Right to Hunt state but if you happen to live in a state that does not have this valuable constitutional amendment such as, South Dakota, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada (yup, the list is long and alarming) you may want to seriously consider starting a push to get it on the ballot for 2022, afterall, two can play that game.
Source Links
https://www.rmef.org/elk-network/radical-oregon-initiative-attacks-hunting-agriculture-and-meat/
https://ballotpedia.org/Right_to_hunt_and_fish_constitutional_amendments#cite_note-6]
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1561&context=wmborj
The assault and barrage of over the top outlandish proposed legislation will not stop since Pandora’s box is wide open – it will only continue to get worse ! Forcing continual defensive actions in response until eventually persons become numb and cave into the foray. Plant the seed is the current strategy for ballot items such as this. Even when the ground is burned these ideas rise from the ashes like a germinated seed by wildfire. Gonna have to fight like hell to the end and many will fall by the wayside as they tire from the non- stop assault with dozens more coming our way.
Washington state has created law that nobody under 21 can shoot a semiautomatic 22 rifle, even then after 21 they must pass HIPPA test, back ground check and been certified to shoot a semiautomatic gun. If your gun was stolen and a crime is committed with it by the criminals that stole it you are as well guilty of the crime they committed. These minors that cannot vote but lost their 2nd ammendment rights. GUNS DO NOT KILL only people that are uneducated or mentally ill kill people. War is another story.. I Can only pray 40 days and 40 nights of rain come to rid these Demwits and Liberal diseases from the country/planet.
Well, a graduate professor was accused of murdering her colleague. But then she was a flaming liberal.
It really is a shame that the state I call home is turning out to be the laughing stock in all ways and I do mean in all ways. It used to be the people who disliked hunting in any form would come up with laws, but would do it in such a way as to take small bites of the apple. The anti hunters in Oregon must now believe they can eat it all. Orion made the comment about the low hanging fruit in Portland, we also have an abundant crop flourishing in Salem and also Eugene. We as hunters need to join together to protect the things that mean so much to us, not just us , but our kids and theirs. We need to take this all the way to the supreme court to protect what we have.
I know that there our brilliant minds out there, come up with a strategy, we will all support you. We need to stop complaining and chasing our tails…..
Correction, sorry Orion the low hanging fruit comment belongs to Ed Godfrey
Several states want to cut the coastal states down in size. Meaning all the shit hole cities like LA, Seattle and Portland are the actual state of Mexicali, Washington and Oregon. Everything else becomes Idaho. They protect the Columbia and all its tributaries from being further destroyed by these liberal idiots and their Femwit Demwit fruitcakes.
hanks for bringing attention to the issue of Initiative Petition IP13 in Oregon. The right to hunt is a deeply held value for many people, and it’s essential that we continue to have open and informed discussions about the role of hunting in our society. Keep up the great work! 😊