Sorry to make my first post on the forum to be political, but I think I need to speak up on this. The item in question on ballot is not intended to ban anything. It is the polar opposite of that. The line item on the ballot is for ammending the state constitution by giving each and every state citizen a "right" to hunt and fish in TN. As it stands now, any single legislator can write a bill to ban any or all hunting and fishing in the state. It would only requre a majority of votes at the state level to get that bill signed into law. Then we all would be SOL. With so many animal rights groups pushing money and influence to these legislators it is a wonder it hasn't already happened. One anti-hunting/fishing legislator, angry about someone trying to fish around "his" dock by his mult-million dollar home on the shore of "his" lake, could push a bill through to ban it all with just a little assistance from his cronies before we were hardly aware.
Since the required simple majority (50% of the vote plus 1) is all that is needed to pass, if you don't vote "yes" it is automatically counted as a "no". Tell everyone you know about it and don't leave it blank.
Sorry for the length, but, damn it makes my blood boil. Get out and vote and please vote "yes" for the right to hunt and fish in this great state from now on.
