Senator Bartolomeo Amidei took a step back on the proposed changes to the hunting law after the controversy caused by the text he presented in the Senate. What caused the most excitement was the demand to lower the hunting age to 16.
“We’re in a Wild West climate now,” thundered the Democratic Party’s Vincenza Rando. In Italy, at sixteen you can’t drive a car, you can’t vote, but you can pick up a rifle and shoot. But are we kidding or serious?”
Riccardo Magi, secretary of Più Europa, also opposes this: “But does the government really want to facilitate the circulation of weapons under the pretext of hunting? Do we want to lift restrictions on hunting activity? Are we in the madness of a right-wing gunfighter? As Senator Mennuni said, women have children at home and he imagines the man hunting wild animals with a shotgun in his hand at an early age.”
Back step
After strong protests sparked by the text, Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida decided to intervene by asking Senator Amidei to withdraw his bill, declaring that “an agreement with the government was never reached”. Without going into the substance of the issues covered, I believe that it is necessary to avoid any dispute arising from individual proposals that do not fall within the scope of a general and homogeneous reorganization of hunting activity on a European basis. to contaminate a discussion intended to guarantee the lawful activities of free citizens, including the citizen in question”.
“At the request of Minister Lollobrigida, I withdrew the bill under my signature,” Amidei writes in a note. The proposal aimed at regulatory homogeneity of the rules applying to hunting activity in Europe. “Unfortunately, as always, it has become a subject of sterile debate without getting into the merits, and the issue will need to be addressed more appropriately within the framework of a general review.”
Source: Today IT
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