Sunday Hunting Ban is still being batted around despite the torpedo the NC Wildlife Commission I believe inadvertently put through the bow. Opposition to Sunday Hunting continues to be focused on the religious aspects which I think is the wrong approach. Those who support over turning the ban have some very valid points when it comes to this argument.
LUMBERTON – Robeson County hunters are gun-shy about a proposal to lift the 137-year-old ban on Sunday hunting in the state.
“I’m opposed to it,” said William Stone, former director of the county Inspections Department. “I probably hunt as much as anyone, but I don’t think it’s right … it would disrupt church services, and Sunday is a time to rest.”
Stone is not alone in thinking that Sunday is a time for reflection and rest, not rifles.
Of course non hunting church goers are also opposed to lifting the ban;
“I’m not a hunter, so I would be prejudice to start with, but I don’t think they ought to hunt on Sunday,” said Bud Parrish, director of missions for the Robeson Baptist Association. “(Hunters) should have a day to rest.”
State Senator Dave Weinstein of Lumberton feels that the legislators will take up the Sunday Hunting Study shortly after returning to Raleigh and they will kill it quickly. Despite the WRC revoking their support and sending the study to the lawmakers without it there still appears to be some key support on the committee to overturn the ban.
Wildlife Commission Vice Chairman Steve Windham said he personally supports Sunday hunting – he called fishing “hunting with a hook”
No matter where you come down on this issue you have to admit the “day of rest” is a pretty lame argument. One only has to go the nearest steak house on Sunday after church lets out to see how hypocritical that argument really is.
