TO THE EDITOR,
Thank you for your piece on the Humane awards that Speaker Mattiello and Representative Serpa received last week. These two were due for recognition for their animal protection leadership.
They support several animal protection bills in front of our legislature right now in fact: H. 7440 would end the sale of shark fins in Rhode Island (demand for shark fins drives the cruel practice of shark finning, where a shark’s fins are cut off often while the animal is still alive!); H. 7324 would protect hens in egg production from being kept in tiny cages for their whole lives; H. 7604 would prohibit the use of “bullhooks,” a sharp metal hook used to hit circus elephants in order to inflict pain during training.
I encourage our lawmakers in Providence to follow Rep. Serpa and Speaker Mattiello’s lead and support these worthy bills. I would like to see Speaker Mattiello allow the three bills for sensible gun laws to be heard and brought to a vote on another subject.
Thank you,
Terace Greene Hadfield
Volunteer, Humane Society and RICAGV
Warwick, RI
Author: Rob Borkowski
Rob has worked as reporter and editor for several publications, including The Kent County Daily Times and Coventry Courier, before working for Gatehouse in MA then moving home with Patch Media. Now he's publisher and editor of WarwickPost.com. Contact him at [email protected] with tips, press releases, advertising inquiries, and concerns.
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yeah, criminals would love those bills. The day you advocate for measures that truly target the actual people who are committing crime with firearms, that will be the day this would gain support. Those 3 ideas you point out, one of them is already law, and the other only target law abiding people who are not committing crimes.
Any gun laws only restriction the law abiding citizens, STOP TRYING TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT, I am a citizen who votes, and I am paying attention. How stupid, and I mean stupid if you think some jerk say’s ” oh no I can’t commit this crime ” because there’s a new law. YOUR logic is not logical.