Hunters who are sitting back and doing nothing about the passage of gun laws and the constant attacks against our hunting rights will be the ones to blame. Some may say, "I don't have the time; I can't give money," but if that is your excuse, you don't have an excuse for the easiest and most powerful thing you can do, VOTE!

This election year, it is clear who wants to take your gun rights away. Those candidates are open in their speeches that they want more gun control, from the White House to the State House to your city officials. Notice they say "gun" not "criminal" control. If you are a gun owner, you are blacklisted as someone associating with something evil. If you own more than one gun, Oh my, you must be part of a militia — after all what civil person would ever need more than one gun if any at all?

Fellow hunters and gun owners, the opposition will not stop until they not only have you register every gun you own, but take them from you. They are using the general public, which is ignorant about your rights and the issue of guns and crime, to do it.

There is nothing, and I mean nothing, more important than your vote this year. If we don't stop them this year, it is questionable what there will be to save in the elections two years or four years from now.

Make a difference, here's how:

• Register to vote
• Make sure your friends and relatives are registered to vote
• Help those candidates that support your rights
• Vote on November 7

Extra things you can do:

• If you will be on a hunting trip on election day , use an Absentee ballot
• Get an Absentee ballot for your friends and relatives
• Do as many of the following as you can for your candidates:

- Contribute to their campaign
- Put a lawn sign up
- Put bumper stickers on your vehicles
- Walk your neighborhood for them
- Drive people to the polls
- Have a "Meet the Candidate" session at your home
- Press your hunting friends to the wall to vote — no excuses.

Don't let them gut-shoot us on election day!

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem — VOTE!

Jerry Springer
Publisher/Editor

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