Hunting/fishing ban: Inslee defies common sense

I am writing to protest Gov. Jay Inslee’s decision to ban recreational hunting and fishing (for food). He has deemed these activities “nonessential.” Yet pot stores can stay open and sell recreational marijuana as “essential.”

Excuse me, but what is more likely to spread the virus? Hunting for spring bear or turkeys, hundreds of yards apart? Fishing for trout, yards apart? All of it outdoors.

Or standing inside a store, buying weed, a few feet apart?

I guess the governor must believe those who go hunting line up like Civil War movies depict soldiers in battle, shoulder to shoulder.

People don’t hunt or fish that way. It is a matter of etiquette. Something the governor knows nothing about.

For that reason and the bias he has chosen by picking and choosing what businesses can be open. I highly suggest that come November, voters make sure Inslee is retired. Let Washington be free of him.

This story was originally published April 23, 2020 at 6:51 PM with the headline "Hunting/fishing ban: Inslee defies common sense."