In response to Tommy Johnson’s letter, “Hunting on Sunday” (BDN, May 25); I am a Maine voter and one of the more than 90 percent in Maine who don’t hunt. I am also among the many people in that 90 percent who feel besieged during hunting season, when the woods, as the writer has noted, are full of people with lethal weapons – woods that are virtually off limits unless one is willing to take the risk of being a victim of a stray bullet.
I don’t dare to even go out into my yard or walk my dog without an article of bright orange on both of us so as not to be mistaken for a deer. I feel that being allowed to hunt for six days a week, from before sunrise to after sunset, should be enough time for the hunting community. It is not about “not hunting just because it’s Sunday,” as Johnson suggests, it’s about giving the woods, the animals and the rest of us a break from the onslaught.
Bob Brooks
Freedom
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