Council to consider gun law

Butch and Sherry Herren said they moved to Ashville about two years ago to get ready for a quiet retirement that is still a few years away. But the hunting and shooting that they say goes on near their home has given them second thoughts.

Peace and quiet is all well and good, but you don't move in and start telling the people who were there before you how to live their lives.

Ashville is a city of about 2,400 people. In places, the city limits extend into fields and wooded areas where many people expect to be able to hunt dove, deer and other game on their own property

Phillip Anthony, a former Ashville mayor and a retired game warden, said people's rights to hunt and shoot on their property should be protected.

"People move out there and buy five, 10, 15 or 20 acres and think they control the 300 or 400 around them," Anthony said. "They do not. And they need to be convinced that they do not."

This is the fundamental problem with large, central government. Different rules apply to different places, and a single large government simply can't deal with that.

Posted on 2004-10-24 18:11:48.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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