Why is a constitutional right to hunt, fish and trap needed in Arkansas?
Anti-hunting organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) have an annual budget of over $120 million. Their declared objective is to end all consumptive sporting practices. Through the initiative process, they have succeeded in enacting hunting bans in states considered to be sportsmen strongholds. For instance, three years ago in Michigan, a state with a million hunters, HSUS banned the hunting of doves, the most commonly hunted game bird in America. Its only a matter of time before these anti-hunting activists, using the states initiative process, set their sights on the sportsmen of Arkansas. It is not prudent to wait until a crisis to pursue a constitutional amendment. By then, it will be too late. Doesnt Amendment 35 already protect the rights of sportsmen? Some opponents have publicly stated that Amendment 35 already provides all of the protection from future attacks sportsmen would ever need. This is untrue. Amendment 35 simply empowers a group of politic
