The second of January, the first useful hunting day of the new year, New Year's was Friday, as usual I spent hunting. A gloomy day "finally" and I at the post office under my umbrella, waiting for the black beast, reflecting on our future as hunters.
Of course, unlike the clear sky that granted a completely unreal climate until the end of December, there are too many black clouds full of bad omens from a political point of view.
The Prime Minister has publicly declared that he wants to make life much more difficult for all those who have a regular firearm license and even more so for those who intend to take it. He will not have our applause and consent for this of course. Also and above all because the changes they intend to make are the offspring of the most sinister propaganda and devoid of any glimmer of reasonableness.
In Friuli Venezia Giulia a battle is being fought without quarter between the usual anti-hunting, anti-everything environmentalists and hunters who only want to be able to exercise their rights. At the moment it is the Council of State that has blocked an unfortunate suspension of the TAR which effectively closed the hunt more than a month in advance.
Even through the lines of this newspaper, the undersigned and other and much more authoritative personalities, see Bruno Modugno, we have tried to solicit an answer, an intervention or simply a position taken by the hunting associations, but unfortunately at the moment we do not record anything good . They will certainly be busy with much more important matters ...
There are those who move and do it big and violently. See the Five Star Movement that has launched a very important attack on the world of hunting and hunters. At the end of the year, the two top leaders, Grillo and Casaleggio, undoubtedly demonstrated all the hidden hatred they harbor for us hunters. Statements at the gun cotton with related videos appeared on Grillo's blog. Casaleggio has done worse, if we can say so, he has published a book in which he hopes that hunters will be literally banned and chased naked and barefoot in the woods. In short, everything more. As you know, through these pages we do not engage in politics, but certainly the Five Star Movement does not expect my friendship, my esteem and my vote starting from the election of the mayors.
In short, as in a menu of an important restaurant of poisonous courses and enemies we have all kinds and for all tastes.
Finally, there are also false friends or those who do not understand what they want to do. Legambiente, for example, please clarify your position. On the one hand, it winks at some hunting associations and in particular at the FIDC, but then never misses an opportunity to take sides against hunting and hunters in a completely preconceived way in the style of the worst animal and environmentalist associations.
But we are there. The Italian hunters are there! We will respond, as usual, blow for blow. We will use all our energy to make known to everyone: hunters and public opinion our legitimate reasons.
We will try to fight with all the means that the Law makes available to us. These pages will be available to all those who wish to express their opinion, bring ideas, design a strategy that helps us defend our sacrosanct right to hunt freely and legitimately.
In the end I don't know if we will be winners or losers but we will be sure that we will give one hundred and twenty percent and if that were not enough we will also try to do the impossible. For these reasons I wish all hunters, friends of hunters and their families a happy 2016.
In wishing a Happy New Year to you Federico and to all the Italian hunters, I can only express my fear of the rise of animal rights drift and of the hatred towards the hunting world manifested by the 5-star movement. I hope 2016 will bring us together in countering them. Francesco Barreca
Dear Francesco, you have hit the mark with the meaning of my editorial. Together we have shown that we can defeat our enemies, we have won all the referendums that have gradually arisen, the greens who have raised the anti-hunting and animal rights banner have become extinct in parliament, becoming a species protected by a museum. We just need to realize that this is a new season in which we need to abandon selfishness and divisions. I repeat united you win.
federico