Vote scheduled to ban all hiking in PA. Game Lands for 130 DAYS per year

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6. It is banned, but like the ban on drinking and driving ignored..

AS to drinking and hunting, it is often talked about but most of the hunters I hunted with NEVER went out drunk and most avoiding drinking during Deer Camp (You had exceptions, but they tended to be the same people who get DUIs). Thus Alcohol is BANNED and has been BANNED for decades, just like Driving while drinking has been banned.

The "Connection" between Hunting and Alcohol is like the connection between driving and alcohol. Most hunters and most drivers do NOT drink while hunting or driving, but you have some who do and that who you read about in the papers. Thus since someone somewhere was caught drinking and driving, should you be accused of drinking while driving because you have a driver's license??? You would rightfully say no, driving does NOT mean you would drink. The same with hunting, hunting does NOT imply hunters are all drunks, most are NOT but like DUIs, you hear of the drunk hunters all the time.

Remember Pulitzer's comment "Dog biting man is NOT news, Man biting dog, that is NEWS". We hear of the EXCEPTIONS to what is normal NOT what is normal. A Dog biting a man is "normal" it happens, everyone knows it happens and rarely talked about much after the bite. On the other hand if a Man biting a dog is so strange and abnormal it is talked about and the word of it spreads and hits the front page of the papers. People like horror stories and when you read them remember what Pulitzer said, for that reflects not only what is reported in papers, but on television and today the net. Horror Stories that affect almost no one unlike actual dog bites cases that do cause real people real harm.