Constitutional Amendment to Hunt and Fish

(Baton Rouge, Louisiana) This story will probably get some media attention in the campaigns leading up to the November elections.

Louisiana residents should be guaranteed the right to hunt, fish and trap in the state's Constitution, a panel of lawmakers decided Thursday.

"This is to protect the rights of sportsmen in this state," Sen. Joe McPherson said of his constitutional amendment, which was approved unanimously by the Senate Natural Resources Committee.

In all likelihood, the proposed amendment will be approved by the legislature and, subsequently, placed on the November ballot for a vote by the people of Louisiana.

I cannot imagine that the anti-gun and animal rights extremists will allow the amendment to be passed without a vigorous battle. The idea that a person would have the constitutional right to use a high-powered rifle to blow a hole into the skull of cute, harmless Bambi has to be unfathomable.

The amendment would also set a precedent concerning limits on animal rights. It wouldn't matter what rights the activists imagine animals have if the citizens can trump all those imagined rights with a firearm.