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Contact us SHARK NEWSLETTER December 9, 2011 Join our Email list
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Pigeon Shoot Ban Coming Up For a Vote!
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DEAR FRIENDS,
The bill to ban live pigeon shoots in Pennsylvania is coming up for a vote, possibly as soon as next week.
The legislation, by Representative John Maher, will be in the form of an amendment that will also make eating cats and dogs illegal and ban the release of exotic animals into the wild.
It is vital that every PA resident contact their state legislator and ask that they vote "Yes" on the "Maher Amendment" to end the nightmare of cruel pigeon shoots!
Find your legislator HERE
Obviously, the NRA is upset and crying about this, but what's interesting is that they don't even refer to pigeon shoots, but instead call them "organized bird shoots." They go on to say "For over a century, shoots have been held in Pennsylvania by law-abiding, ethical shooting enthusiasts."
Now we know they are just making this up as they go along. SHARK has documented enormous unethical behavior, from Philadelphia Gun Club President Leo Holt torturing wounded pigeons to a huge pile of dead and wounded birds at the Wing Pointe canned hunting club. And let's not forget that putting a pigeon into a box and shooting them like clay targets is the definition of an unethical act. But that's the NRA; they have never met a cruel slaughter of animals that they didn't like.
When you contact your state legislators, you may want to point them to the following videos exposing the true and horrific nature of pigeon shooting. These videos let the victims speak for themselves, and show what cowards pigeon shooters and the NRA are.
 | | One Horribly Abused Little Pigeon |
 | | One Pigeon Shoot Victim, Close-up |
And here's a video of one of the NRA's so called "ethical" pigeon shooters assaulting a woman. Let your legislator see just how pathetic these shooters are:
 | | Pigeon Shoot Thug Assaults Woman |
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News Coverage From When SHARK Live-Streamed a Pigeon Shoot
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Last August, when SHARK broke new ground and live-streamed a pigeon shoot on the web, Philadelphia's FOX 29 news covered the story. We just found video of that report on YouTube. Here it is:
 | | Hamburg Pigeon Shoot |
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Kindest Regards,
Steve Hindi and Your SHARK Team
"Kindness and compassion towards all living beings is a mark of a civilized society. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting and rodeos are all cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." - Cesar Chavez, civil rights and labor leader, founder of the United Farm Workers
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