Property rights and Sunday hunting

By: The Editorial Board | GoDanRiver
Published: February 08, 2012

To the editor:

Sunday hunting — on private property only and only by the owners and their immediate families.

Sound reasonable to you?

Well, it doesn’t to our Virginia Farm Bureau leadership. Who the heck is the Virginia Farm Bureau to tell us what a landowner can do with his own property on Sunday? I think I smell a hidden agenda that is not friendly to landowners or citizens of the commonwealth.

They claim that their members want to ban families from hunting on their own land on Sunday because the vast majority of their members oppose it.

Well, I am a member, and they have never asked me. I think we need to drag them out into the sunlight and see just what we have.

They take money in the formof dues and insurance premiums from members and customers like me, and use it to pay lobbyists to fight against my rights as a landowner. I suspect we will find an elitist agenda holding back what the governor, landowners, hunters and the Department of Game and Inland Fishers have come out in support of— very limited Sunday hunting by landowners on their own private land in Virginia.

Until the facts are known, citizens of the commonwealth should think long and hard before patronizing any business that works against the rights of its customers. And the Farm Bureau is just that— a business. No insurance company, or any other company for that matter, should be dictating to our delegates and senators what landowners and their families can or cannot do on their own land on any day of the week, and especially on Sunday.

Thanks to Sen. Bill Stanley and Gov. Bob McDonnell for supporting the rights of private, tax paying land owners and citizens of the commonwealth.

CHRIS F. MOHR

Danville

Property rights and Sunday hunting

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