Land Ho!

Locally, there is a big story that involves a woman who was shot in the head by a hunter's stray bullet in December. The woman is alive and well, sue happy, and hell-bent on changing all the hunting laws. Now, the hunter was within about 6/10 of a mile from where the woman was when he fired so he isn't totally faultless. This happened in an area that, until recently, was empty land.

What's happening is that every square foot of open land around here is being built up with houses and "lifestyle centers" (formally called malls or shopping centers) without any consideration to what that land's use has been for the past hundred years. When people move into their decadent, 3000 Sq. ft houses on Old Farmer Joe's property, they should consider what the land was formerly used for. Old Farmer Joe may have let hunters use his land to kill the deer in order to keep them from eating his livelihood.

If you ask me, the hunters should be suing and demanding that people stop taking away their land.

I think there should be restrictions on where hunters hunt but maybe we should stop muscling in on what has been their turf for a long time.

However, I see these types of stories becoming more and more common this seemingly unrestricted and unregulated push to build everywhere continues.