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Originally Posted by tinman
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I have no idea. Who are some of these people?
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Don, I don't want to be confrontational and am personally tired of rehashing this debate online...but for the record you are one of these people. Like the family members of the TV hunter who went before the House Committee hearing HB-1334 as "concerned individuals", you accept money from Horton and work for them to promote crossbows through your magazine. I know how you personally try to influence your magazine's bowhunting contributors to use and promote crossbows as Archery Weapons...and have even discouraged some (myself included) from writing bowhunting/archery articles.
People who stand to gain financially through this type of legislation should not be the people pushing it...but you came here promising/threatening to get us next time! Yet, you portray the archery community as hostile in this cartoon you ran in '04? [see below]
Simply put this is not an anti-crossbow crusade for us, Don. It is our reaction to this crusade being driven by crossbow manufacturers across North America....not just in Texas. It is also the reaction of every other State/Provincial Bowhunting rights organization in North America, the North American Bowhunters Rights Coalition, the Pope & Young Club, the Professional Bowhunters Society, the National Bowhunter's Education Foundation, etc...we must all be too slow to understand "logical" thought. 
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Anyway, I'll likely hang around until you guys kick me out...
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No one wants to kick you out, (though a minority) there are some LSBA members who share your view on this issue. We value their overall support and opinions as much as any member's but our actions must represent the majority of our membership. I would welcome the opportunity to share a campfire with you sometime soon, hunt some hogs...and if you insist we can discuss this topic. Maybe if we'd both learn that we are not one another's enemy, we can work together to find a solution that will satisfy both sides of this debate. |
My magazine does not "accept" advertising from any manufacturer--we *solicit* it. It is how we make our livings. That is no more relevant to the issue at hand than is the Gulf Fisheries Counsel gutting the recreational snapper fishery in favor of commercial fishing. Because we solicit advertising from recreational fishing equipment manufacturers, should we be silent on this issue as well?
Sorry, Joey, that is at best a straw-man argument, or perhaps more properly a red herring.
And I reiterate agin that it was a schoolboy email from a "conventional" bowhunter that pused me over the edge on this. It made me even more of an "anti-anti" than I already was. I am fed up with elitism, calls for bans of this or that method or means that that is perfectly legitimate and ethical--and exclusionary rhetoric, regardless of it purpose or origin.
DZ