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On the article Hunting On The Cove Is Legal – In Warwick
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On the article Hunting On The Cove Is Legal – In Warwick
Bridget
9:42 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
ReplyNot all hunters follow the rules. I know this firsthand because I've seen some hunters disobeying them (and yes, I called DEM, but they cannot do anything unless someone is breaking the law in front of them). I'm also sure those VERY loud bangs some mornings are not Duck guns, but a much more high-caliber weapon. Even still, I would STILL hate for my 5-year-old to get shot in the torso with small duck pellets. Perhaps he wouldn't die or be severely maimed, but I'm willing to bet that the guy Cheney shot wouldn’t say that it felt good. Hunters have rights, sure, but the laws need to be reassessed as time goes by.
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On the article Hunting On The Cove Is Legal – In Warwick
Bridget
8:47 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
They are not supposed to. They are supposed to shoot 500 feet away from an occupied building, toward open water. I'm sure most hunters are following these rules. I'm also sure not all of them always do.
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On the article Hunting On The Cove Is Legal – In Warwick
Bridget
7:56 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Kayakers and scullers are in the cove WELL into the Fall, and people walk the shore all year long. They would not need to walk directly in front of a hunter. My point is that a bullet can easily be shot across the end of the cove to the other side. Hunters are also hunting FROM boats in the middle of the bay, and have been known to shoot toward the shore. The walkers would not see a hunter, in full camouflage, across the bay.
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On the article Hunting On The Cove Is Legal – In Warwick
Bridget
7:31 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
ReplyI'm glad you wrote about this, Elizabeth.
I live in EG, on the cove by Scalloptown Park. I am shocked that hunting is "legal" here. I hear gunshots quite often, and have made my fair share of calls to both the EG Police and DEM. I have seen hunters in camouflaged skiffs, motoring around the bay, shooting at (assumedly) water fowl. I have been told that as long as the hunters are shooting across the water, 500 feet away from my dwelling, they are following the rules. Often, the gunshots are extremely loud, and clearly too close to my home and/or being shot from the Warwick side toward the EG side. When I suspect the hunters are too close, and I call DEM, I am always told that there isn’t much they can do. Sometimes, they send a DEM employee out by car or boat, but by the time they get to this area, the hunters have usually, most likely, gotten their daily fill of killing things and vacated the area.
I would like to think that most hunters are following the rules. But truthfully, there will always be that one guy who doesn’t… He will be shooting too close to our homes, or with a non-compliant firearm, or not completely “across open water”. Sadly, I suppose it will take an accident involving a “stray” bullet being lodged into someone’s torso, for the rules to change. I think the cove is too populated, with too many people enjoying it by shore or by kayak, for hunting to be allowed. -
On the article Big Box Store Proposed For Frenchtown Road Moved To NK Side
Bridget
11:10 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
ReplyI agree. No new development is needed around here. Abandoned commercial sites need to be re-purposed. The number of decrepit buildings in eg and neighboring towns, is detracting from the aesthetic feel we should have here....and adding a new big box store will do nothing to help. If big box stores need to come, (which they do not) they should at least move into an already-ruined piece of land.
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On the article Three Losers In Proposed 2013 Budget
Bridget
9:04 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
ReplyI would bet that most people in town are not fully aware of the breadth of services the Summer’s End group (Summer Arts and Festival Organization) has supported since 1996: Scholarships for kids, support for the Arts programs around town, providing students with access to art and music classes and summer music camp programs, financial support for arts-related field trips, etc. All of these things to fulfill the group’s mission of promoting, developing and fostering music and arts in East Greenwich and to enhance the appreciation of and access to music and the arts in our community. Simply put – Summer’s End, as it’s commonly known, is not JUST a concert.
Of course, budgets are finite… but I hope people are not too quick to get behind the cutting of a program without knowing all of the facts. I would hate for our town to go in the direction of many other towns throughout the country, by hastily discontinuing funding for the arts. -
On the article [POLL] Should Student Be Arrested For Writing Essay Deemed Threatening?
Bridget
7:20 am on Tuesday, April 10, 2012
ReplyHe should not be arrested for the words alone. That is ludicrous. The school did the right thing by bringing this to the attention of the police (after all, we must learn from history of other school shootings and remain diligent). It's the action of the student afterwards that is questionable. Posting the essay on Facebook was a bad decision... However, it states he was arrested for "threatening a public official" and " disorderly conduct", ( not for writing an essay with questionable contents) so we must surmise that he was lashing out in defiance, rather than trying to assist the police in clearing up the issue. Had he acted in a calm manner, it seems he would not have been arrested.
Bridget
8:34 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
Hi Housewife - I have seen first-hand, two men hunting ducks, in a camouflaged skiff, in the middle of the cove, pointing toward residences. I know they have discharged in an area that is clearly too close to the homes here. I also believe there have been times when someone has discharged weapons other than those allowed...(and I am aware that the wind and direction the gun is pointed play a part in how loud the shot would be.) If you would read my posts again, you may realize that I say MOST hunters probably DO follow the rules. I believe this. My point is, that not everyone abides by the law, and in my opinion, the cove is just too populated and too small of an area , making the potential for accidents to occur that much greater. Luckily, I don’t recall there being any accidents yet, which we are all I’m sure, thankful for. Also, I have never claimed to be an expert on hunting laws - I am simply expressing my opinion, as have you.