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And They Ask Me Why I Carry?

Submitted by cbaus on Thu, 09/07/2006 - 23:10.

By Linda Walker

  • Albuquerque, NM - 74 year old Garland Taylor slain while showing a $900,000 home to a well groomed, professionally dressed man.
  • McKinney, TX - Sarah Ann Walker stabbed 27 times while holding an open house at a new housing development. Her body was found on the kitchen floor by a couple house hunting.
  • St. Petersburg, FL - A neatly dressed man posing as a DEA agent attacks a real estate agent, taking her purse and car keys while threatening her with a gun that he will kill her.
  • DeKalb County, GA - Within an 11 day period, 3 female real estate agents report being robbed at gunpoint by a man and a woman.
  • Baltimore, MD - Maryland police warn Realtors of a man stalking female agents. One agent was assaulted during an open house when the stalker hit her over the head with an object. The agent was able to fend off her attacker, but police believe it was an intended sexual assault.
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    A New Way to Share Our Hunting and Trapping Heritage

    Submitted by cbaus on Thu, 09/07/2006 - 23:05.

    By Larry S. Moore

    With the start of the fall hunting season last week, the apprentice-hunting license officially became available. The Ohio Division of Wildlife has been a leader in providing opportunities to introduce young people to the outdoors through hunting, fishing, and trapping programs. The Division has special early season youth hunts for upland game the last two weekends of October. There are early
    season youth hunts for waterfowl, deer, and spring turkey seasons. These have proven to be very popular with the youth plus with the parents and mentors. Since introducing the special early youth seasons, the sale of youth hunting licenses have increased. This is good for the future of hunting, trapping and conservation in Ohio because sportsmen generate nearly ninety per cent of the money spent on wildlife conservation in the state. Ohio was the second state in the nation to pass the apprentice-hunting license. Pennsylvania was the first state to pass the initiative only weeks before Ohio.

    The bill provides for the purchase of special apprentice hunting or trapping licenses by individuals who have not yet completed a hunter
    education course. The license restricts the apprentice to hunting immediately with a mentor. The mentor must be within unaided voice and
    visual contact of the apprentice. Additionally the mentor must be the holder of a hunting or trapping license and be aged 21 or older. As with the current special youth hunting seasons, the mentor is prohibited from accompanying more than two apprentice hunters. The cost of the apprentice hunting or trapping license is the same as the regular hunting license. A person is limited to purchasing a maximum of three apprentice hunting licenses before being required to take the Ohio
    hunter education course.

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