To a certain extent the same applies to trappers – who are usually the same people as hunters.

Although it is something I’ve seen for the better part of my life, it still seems odd to see a grown man walk around with a cage in his hand and a little bird in it.

However, whilst I don’t believe that they “shoot for the pot” and that it is the thrill of killing something that gets them out of bed at unearthly hours, I’m not sure I agree with the statement that it is the same as leaving the birds rot in the fields. Otherwise the same would apply to those who go fishing and eat their fish.

Just to be clear, I abhor the concept of hunting be it spring or autumn and wish that this referendum was not just about abolishing it in spring. However at the minimum even if we had to accept that they were shooting for the pot, then it should only be dish served in the autumn.

Must be truly a mental disorder.

I believe that the law only permits single or double bestseller shotguns. Other types of guns are illegal

Dr Busuttil,

Qed nikteb biex nesprimi d-dizappunt u d-dizilluzjoni tieghi u ta’ hafna ohrajn fuq id-decizjoni tieghek li tivvota favur il-kontinwazzjoni tad-deroga fuq il-kacca fir-rebbiegha. Bhal hafna ohra inhoss li din id-decizjoni, ghalkemm ghidtilna mod iehor, hi ibbazata fuq kalkolu politiku.

Jien nemmen li dan kalkolu zbaljat, imma anke jekk mhux, konvint li din decizjoni li lill-pajjiz hsara sejra taghmillu mhux gid. L-aghsafar la jmorru ma jergghux jigu – qed nitkellem fuq l-estinzjoni – u b’di d-decizjoni qed nghidu li ahna l-interess kollettiv ta’ l-Ewropa u tar-regjun li ahna parti minnhom ma tantx nistmawh.

Ir-reputazzjoni ta’ Malta gratilha hafna hsara minhabba l-kacca, u kollha kemm ahna naraw kif bl-iskuza tad-deroga ssir hafna kacca illegali. Rajna wkoll kemm hemm kaccaturi – mhux kollha, veru, imma mhux wiehed jew tnejn anqas – lesti li juzaw il-vjolenza u jgibu ruhhom b’mod tassew aggressiv.

Decizjoni bhal tieghek tinkoraggihom, ghax qed tghidilhom li jekk igibu ruhhom b’da l-mod tghaddi taghhom. Fuq din you have let us down, badly.

Victor Pace

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-01-21/local-news/Mizzi-says-discussions-under-way-to-avoid-repeat-of-recent-horse-related-incidents-6736129192

He really doesn’t have to do anything, just enforce the law.

Everyone present agreed that hunting is almost a fixation for hunters. Someone even said that he knew someone who shot his dog then himself after the season was closed prematurely. I said that I could confirm this myself, having seen plenty of people at Mount Carmel Hospital with suicidal ideation after a season is closed earlier than usual.

So someone else said that they’ll be voting in favour as they prize a man’s life over a bird’s and yet another said that they’re not hunters but why should they deprive others of their hobby?

I said that I’ll be voting against hunting because of conservation issues. A bright spark said that Malta is very small so we don’t get large numbers of doves passing over us and the damage is not as great as we are led to believe. Besides, hunters have a limit on the number of birds they can shoot.

I tried again by saying that hunters do not declare all their kills and besides it’s a cover for illegal hunting. I was told that illegal hunting is already punished.

At this point I could see that any further discussion would be futile so I paid for my groceries and left.

We’ll have spring hunting again next year.

Load of rubbish. All one has to do is enter any local gunshop to see the mentality and the lethal weapons on sale.

Here are a few examples of both.

https://www.facebook.com/innamra/photos/a.293771453968763.78851.213136388698937/781230541889516/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/innamra/photos/a.293771453968763.78851.213136388698937/733569086655662/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/innamra/photos/a.293771453968763.78851.213136388698937/592420374103868/?type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/innamra/photos/ms.c.eJw9zsENADEIA8GOTmAChv4bOwlCniPvwySOIzVUJICPY6ljVh5rHft1RffCZzAInjW7txqbeO~;h6xrrOrtHXmv~;8cIPI7sgbQ~-~-.bps.a.408623599150214.99165.213136388698937/772452816100622/?type=1&theater

Another advertised ‘ we specialize in Dispersante [scatter] close range cartridges and medium to heavy loads from 30 to 36 grams.’

And all this to shoot a turtle dove for the pot.

Surely a couple of quails, for those with the patience of eating them, bought at the supermarket would cost much much less so let’s stop this nonsense that hunters shoot birds out of hunger.

All they are doing is threatening both quails and turtle doves with extinction.

Hunters claim, erroneously, that theirs is a tradition. It isn’t.

The handful of hunters who could afford guns a hundred years ago used single or at most double barrelled guns which were not as accurate or devastating as today’s weapons.

Hunters have made hunting unsustainable through their own greed. Their egoism and arrogance has done the rest.