New Mountain Lion Bill In Missouri Senate

[Gavin]

Usurp their authority? Hah! The Jack Wagon Farm Bureau types that propose this stuff know it's not going to fly...They just want to jerk MDC's chain and tick off a few granola's...It works every time.

[eric1978]

I don't really care what political party the person who introduced the bill is...A classic case of missing the point.

Missing the point? The point is if no one had voted for that jackass, no one would have to be sending emails with concerns about unscrupulous cougar lynchings. That's the point.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Woah, that's one deep conspiracy theory ya got going on there. I love it!

Conspiracy theory??

Did you forget about this:

http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/index.php?showtopic=31600

I know you were just playing but, it is all kinda tying together.

[Outside Bend]

Woah, that's one deep conspiracy theory ya got going on there. I love it!

Haha, point taken. But introducing legislation like this presupposes that the legislature has some say in how the state's fish and wildlife are managed. They don't. The people of the state (who these guys are supposed to represent), voted in favor of creating that arrangement. Let's have the legislature focus on issues it DOES have control over- there's plenty of them.

Even if these legislators did have some say in game management, there's no reason for this particular legislation. The bill's language is almost identical to MDC policy, except you don't have to pretend the lion was about to eat you or your steer before you blast it. Seems pretty redundant to me.

As I said- I really doubt any of the bills will get anywhere, but it's a situation worth watching. At minimum its a dog-and-pony show that costs state agencies and taxpayers, and takes time from more significant legislative endeavors.

Edit: I was thinking about this in the grocery check-out line (poor planning on my part, going the day before Super Bowl). IMO letting our legislators know we don't support these bills is great. But I also think we should go deeper- make sure they know we're aware these efforts are unconstitutional, and that they represent a waste of legislator's time and taxpayer's money.

[ozark trout fisher]

Missing the point? The point is if no one had voted for that jackass, no one would have to be sending emails with concerns about unscrupulous cougar lynchings. That's the point.

If you want this thing defeated, you want people to write their senators. And if you run off conservatives by making this a partisan issue, then you're just shooting yourself in the foot.

This particular senator does seem to be a rather ignorant and/or malicious one. I hope he gets voted out in the next election. But it isn't productive to use a fishing forum to tell people how to vote, so I'm not going to do that. Nobody actually listens to that anyway. The best we can do is to write or senators and help see that this bill doesn't get anywhere.

[Phil Lilley]

Had to delete a few posts and ban a member.

[Smalliebigs]

lol.............watch out for the cougars

Don't ban me Phil!!!!!! I think it's hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Justin Spencer]

Had to delete a few posts and ban a member.

I miss all the fun!

I think we need to ban that cougar video, seems to find it's way in to all of these cougar threads!

[FishinCricket]

Had to delete a few posts and ban a member.

Can't you just block his IP address and get it over with? He'll just sign up as a different member name and it'll all start again...

[exiledguide]

Can't you just block his IP address and get it over with? He'll just sign up as a different member name and it'll all start again...

Did I miss out on another cussin' out name callin' internet scuffle?