Texas already HAS "limits" and they do no good because there's no enforcement. And after your tax laws, criminal laws, osha regulations, and asking permission to buy cough medicine at the grocery store after 5pm when your kid is up sick when exactly will the 24,000,000 citizens of the state of Texas be learning these laws?
...and how can you limit the population's ability to possess creatures they can't even identify.
Hell, the law should just say "you can have as many snakes, turtles, lizards, frogs or alligators as you can fit in a 5gal bucket....as long as none of them eat horse meat." We'd be no worse off than we are now. Snakes are the only animal people swerve to HIT. So who is doing that environmental impact study?
And which law enforcement agency is going to be patrolling the thousands of back roads in Texas making sure no one is herping?
Who will kick in the doors of the sheds to check for methamphetamines and box turtles? Not the ones checking for bombs at highschools and breaking up domestic disputes, I hope.
I want my wildlife left here in Texas, but let's not pass a bunch of asinine laws based on specious numbers and re-elect-me-conservation-platforms that affect ONLY the people who are obeying the law now.
Thanks to Tim I have reviewed most of these proposed Texas laws this spring and I feel certain that all they will accomplish is making me a criminal when I went out of my way to be law abiding.
BTW: anyone in SW Arkansas, SE Oklahoma or W Louisiana want to buy an adult female ornate cantil? It appears I have to get a permit for her otherwise. Thank you very much Rep Hilderbran, you've made my environment safe from me, the guy who keeps the rednecks from releasing the diamondback's (they caught while driving through West Texas) into east Texas.
-MAC-
