So I'm at the Maine Legislature's Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee, waiting for a hearing on a brook trout bill to start so I can testify. The bill before ours is a proposal for a constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to hunt and fish. The language says something about preserving hunting "including all traditional methods".
So the House Chairman, a pretty sharp guy, says, "What's traditional? I mean, decoys are traditional, but now they have batteries and moving parts and butt squirters. We don't want to say something like that can never be banned, do we?"
So the House Chairman, a pretty sharp guy, says, "What's traditional? I mean, decoys are traditional, but now they have batteries and moving parts and butt squirters. We don't want to say something like that can never be banned, do we?"