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out the windows, how do you justify checking vehicles for drugs and alcohol without a search warrant, a practice authorized by the school board of which you are a member? If constitutional guarantees can be suspended by the school board because a vehicle is parked on school property, can the sheriff’s department suspend those same rights if a car is parked in the court house parking lot?
We were blasted after the public hearing by citizens who objected to the suggestion we made in a cutline appearing under a photograph of a stop sign riddled by bullet holes. We acknowledge that we can’t prove the bullet holes came from guns of disgruntled hunters but can they prove that the vandalism wasn’t the work of hunters?
Also, to Mr. El wood Welch: If your threat about the loss of readers from your community was supposed to frighten us into dropping support of the gun ordinances, it didn’t. This newspaper isn’t going to be destroyed financially if 144) members of the Flint Hill Gun Club never read another word we print, as you promised. When the gun ordinances come up again—and they will—we intend to support adoption just as strongly as we have in the past.
Finally, we feel that many of the speakers at Wednesday’s public hearing owe an apology to game warden Jim Bankston. Rappahannock Cpunty is lucky to have a man of his caliber. He doesn’t need the respect of the hunters—he already hasii that respect, at least from an overwhelming majority.
Bankston is dedicated to enforcing the game laws of the Commonwealth, equal enforcement with the laws applying equally to everyone. That makes a few folks mad. It upsets the people who think we should have two sets of rules, one for the natives and another for outsiders. Those individuals probably won’t ever respect Jim Bankston but you can tell as much about a man from his enemies as you can by judging his friends.
Bankston does more with his time than push for passage of laws and help little old ladies across the street. He supported the proposed ordinances, that’s true but he didn’t propose them—not this year or last. As for helping old ladies, we’re sure that he would offer his assistance to anyone who needed it. He’s that kind of person.
We’re not so sure that the little old ladies of Flint Hill can look to Bankston’s detractors for help.
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