ID Wapiti:
I will give you the benefit that your tidbit of new information/clarification can be verified from a third-party source, but don't expect others here to be so gracious.
Lets talk about "mass hysteria." The reason all Fish and Game Departments are against domestic shooting operations is because they understand the risks, all of which have been rehashed here to for. Maybe these fish and game departments have people that are too highly trained in the science of "mass hysteria" rather than biology.
Why has every state that approved shooting farms moved the adminstrative control and licensing from their fish and game departments to some other state department, such as commerce, livestock, etc? Could it be that the biologocal risks are too great, and the only way to disregard such facts is to put another department in charge of licensing, making sure it is a department where biological risks are secondary to economics, agricultural diversity, etc. I suspect so.
Funny how these departments who are newly assigned shooting farm licensing authority, leave enforcement with the fish and game departments. That allows F&G to be the sphinchters when the fertilizer hits the ventilator. F&G is damned by the shooting pen operators if they are too firm with enforcement and are yelled at by hunters when they are not firm enough. Just how these other departments like it. Pass shitty laws/administrative rules and leave the enforcement and consequences with someone else.
"Divide and conquer." Now that is the lamest excuse I have ever heard for a reason to protect these parasitic operations. If it weren't for these type of operations, how much time would we have to spend convincing the non-hunting public (not anti-hunter, but non-hunter) that hunting really is something of value, besides shooting Ol' Sal when he comes in for his morning oats.
This isn't hunter against hunter. It is hunter against deadbeat assholes who have so little appreciation for what hunting really is, that they are willing to give the anti's all the ammunition they need to attack us, just so these lazy bastards can go home and lie to their buddies about how difficult it was to shoot this big critter that now hangs on their wall. This is hunters against a bunch of counterfeits, both shooters and operators.
Are you qualified to dispell all these supposed "myths" of disease, hybridization, damage of hunters image to the public, on infinitim, which you are calling "mass hysteria?"
I hope you can provide us your training and background so that we can turn a deaf ear to the Val Geist's, Mike Miller's, Shane Mahoney's, and other highly trained disease experts of the world and follow you blindly toward the emancipation of the shooting pen operators from the bondage placed upon them by this "mass hysteria." And once and for all we could put this "mass hysteria" to rest.
Until such time, I am comfortable with the path of "mass hsyteria."
Happy Hunting!
