Prop 109 in AZ Gets Voted "NO"

If you're a sportsmen living in Arizona then by now you've heard that sportsmen's rights took a big hit there yesterday. Anti-hunters won this round with 56% of the votes and sportsmen losing with 44% of the votes. There's been a lot of rumors flying around that a good majority of sportsmen in AZ were opposed to Prop 109 getting passed. If this is indeed true all we can say regarding this is that, those sportsmen who opposed Prop 109 were seriously misinformed either by the biased media or anti-hunting groups such as the HSUS.



Sportsmen's rights in AZ just knocked down.



Here's Prop 109 in detail. This information was pulled directly from ballotpedia.org:



A - "yes" vote shall have the effect of:

1. making hunting, fishing and harvesting wildlife a constitutional right,

2. giving the State Legislature exclusive authority to enact laws regulating these activities,

3. prohibiting laws that unreasonably restrict hunting, fishing and harvesting wildlife or the use of traditional means and methods, and

4. establishing hunting and fishing as a preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife.



A - "no" vote shall have the effect of retaining the current laws regarding hunting, fishing and harvesting wildlife.



Anti-hunting groups like the HSUS don't want hunting and fishing to become constitutional rights. They know if that happens it will very difficult or impossible to ever make hunting or fishing illegal. If you're not aware of this already, anti-hunting groups such as the HSUS, PETA and The Defenders of Wildlife main goal is to STOP (make illegal) all hunting and fishing.



So if the HSUS was pushing for everyone to vote "no" and spent $250,000 campaigning for everyone to vote "no" then why would any hunter/sportsman in AZ vote "no" as well?



Again we have to assume it was misinformation.



We at Hunters Against PETA will never stop campaigning to get this decision overturned and help sportsmen in AZ get their rights back. Sportsmen in AZ have two years until we can put this back on the ballot and get their rights back and solidified. Hunting and fishing is a God given right. It should never be up to politicians or animal rights groups/anti-hunting groups to decide when and how we can hunt and fish.


http://www.HuntersAgainstPETA.com