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Essay / Sunday Hunting - 734
In the state of Pennsylvania, there are only seven days left to legally hunt antlered or antlered white-tailed deer with rifles. Of the seven insignificant days of the hunting season, it is only legal to hunt six of them. There should be no law banning hunting on Sundays. This should not be a law because it tries to impose religion on people and because they are not in church they are not allowed to hunt. There were other laws like this in Pennsylvania as well and most of them were repealed, but why wasn't this one? I know that some people are religious and believe that Sunday is a day for God and that if they don't think killing an animal on Sunday is right, they don't have to do it. There is also a very limited time that you can legally hunt in Pennsylvania, December 7-14, so if there is a one-week restriction, we should be allowed to hunt each of those days. There are only a few days to hunt, and hunting illegally on Sundays doesn't get us any closer to the time the public wants to spend in their hunting season. One of the reasons why hunting should be legal on Sunday is that there should not be laws based on religion or trying to force religion. This law was passed with a set of laws called the Blue Laws and they were passed to encourage people to go to church by making Sunday activities illegal. The law prohibiting hunting on Sundays should be repealed because it tries to force people to adopt a religion, even though people have freedom of religion, they are punished for not going to church. People have freedom of religion and this law tries to impose religion on people, which is why it should be repealed. This law prohibits people from hunting because they are not in church, which violates the public's right...... middle of paper ...... law prohibiting hunting on Sundays. There should not be a law banning hunting on Sundays just because people should practice religion. One reason is that people who don't go to church should not be punished for not going and they should be allowed to hunt or do whatever they want during this time. Being able to hunt on Sunday would also give hunters more time to kill an animal and legally harvest its meat. Another reason is that most of the other blue laws have been repealed, these other laws also prohibited activities on Sundays, so this law should also be repealed. Finally, if people don't like the idea of hunting for God on this day, they don't have to do it. There are very limited times for hunting certain animals and not being allowed to hunt on Sundays only makes things worse. Sunday hunting should be legalized primarily because it attempts to impose religion on the public..