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proponents argued that adoption of the ordinances would improve safety on public roads.
Lee Bird, Washington landowner and patron of the ordinances, maintained that a passage of the new regulations would help to enforce existing laws that make it illegal to shoot from the highway. “Houses have been hit. Animals have been hit. Both dogs and cattle have been shot. It’s just a matter of time before a person is shot,” Bird said. "I think the general public has the right to feel safe from hunting on public roads.”
Citing the dangers posed by hunters who shot from the road, often onto property that is posted. Bird noted that a rifle bullet has a killing distance of at least two miles, maybe more.
He acknowledged that the two ordinances proposed for Rappahannock were not the ideal solution to the problem of illegal road hunting. “But it’s a good start,” Bird said. ‘‘And it is all that the General Assembly has allowed us to adopt.”
Bird added that similar
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