[GoodOlBoy]

fabs I understand what Jack originally said. Not it doesn't appear in the bill, but the word Ruger Blackhawk doesn't appear in the HR45 handgun bill either and you can bet your bottom it will be affected as well. What people are up in arms about, and where this comes from are the words of one of the Bill's MAJOR sponsors Barney Franks (may he grow a boil on his backside the size of his ego). You can bet that if Franks has said these things (which I heard from his mouth via a newscast assuming they didn't manipulate the audio track on the video) then you can bet he intends to try them once the Bill is passed.

Hunters or no hunters the Bill is BS. First a Bill comes along to save the wild mustang from extinction (which there was little danger of if you look at the numbers back then) and now they want contraception because there are too many of them. This from people and organizations who can't even get an accurate headcount!

It is the same thing happening OVER AND OVER

Example #1
The hog problems in Texas. In the 80's reactionary Congressmen caused the pig market to just about go bankrupt because of a few cases of pigs with runny noses. People couldn't sell their hogs for enough money to pay for the feed they cost so they declared bankruptcy, opened the pens, and left. Now the 90's come along and the pigs are destroying crops, fields, and pastures so people begin to trap and hunt them as a favor to property owners and sell the meat to slaughterhouses. A Congressman decides that it is making money off of a natrual resource and we can't have that so a bill is passed declaring that feral pigs cannot be sold to slaughterhouses since it is a natural resouce, against the advice of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. You can eat it, or you can leave it to rot, but you can't sell it. Now the 00's roll around and Texas is talking about passing a Multi(read hundreds of)million dollar deal to help landowners deal with the staggering number of feral hogs destroying the countryside, crops, hay fields, etc. To solve the problem the idiots that the overeducated helped put in office could simply repeal the 90's law and let people begin to trap them and sell them again, but in order to do that these overarrogant overeducated buggers would have to admit they were wrong, and they are not about to do that.

Example #2
In the 80's a small feed company in Texas found that they could use a specially designed boat to harvest the hydrilla (we just call it seaweed even though its freshwater) from lakes and ponds and make highly nutritious cattle feed out of it. They begin to do so, and feed prices drop slightly with this feed being the lowest priced stuff you could buy. Small farmers and ranchers loved the stuff and we bought it by the truckload since cattle did VERY well on it. A Congressman decided this was making profit from a natural resouce (again) and sponsered a bill that was passed into law to put a stop to it. The 90's Roll along and now those with lakeside property are having to pay thousands of extra dollars a year, and taxpayers are paying even more in the counties with these large lakes to have the hydrilla poisoned, harvested, and burned to get rid of it every few months. Now the 00's come along and it is discovered that all the "harmless" poison used to kill the Hyrdilla was actually killing out other aquatic plants as well, and now there is a problem with pollution and O2 saturation levels in the lakes. So now we have a Bill sitting in the Texas house waiting to be passed to spend multi(yet again read hundres of)million dollars to rebuild the native aquatic plants and find a way to deal with the hydrilla. Why not let the small buisness make cattle feed again and employee the hundreds or workers it once did? Because they would have to admit they were wrong.

Example #3
Nutria rats in Louisiana. In the 60's and 70's Nutria rats were reintroduced to Louisiana bayous and creeks to help get rid of problems in overvegatated areas. In the 80's the population of these little buggers began to suddenly grow by leaps and bounds. Enter the 90's. Now the rats are cutting burrows in dikes and dams and causing other problems with Louisiana public and private waterways. A Japanese company offers to build a plant in Louisiana to harvest, clean, and can Nutria meat (which is a delicacy in Asian countries) and hire 1400+ people to start. The plans include the eventuality of building Nutria farms (and hiring more people) once the wild population has been brought under control. Louisiana congressmen decide that this would be making money off of a wild resource and say no. 00's roll around the Nutria problem is worse than ever. The worst of the areas have a bounty (ranging from $20 to $50 a head) on Nutria and the state is looking to pass a multi(yep you guessed it hundreds of)million dollar bill to help combat the increasing populations.

This is the lack of common sense, and the tendancy to make the same mistakes OVER AND OVER AND OVER by overeducated dimwits put into power.

There are common sense low cost solutions to almost all of these problems. Now go try to convince a senator, or congressman to help do them and sit back and watch as their eyes roll back in their head and they begin to foam at the mouth chanting "Can't make money off of the system." while drooling on themselves.

GoodOlBoy