The Pennsylvania Game Commission is now pushing for Sunday hunting. I do not see how that will raise revenues; anyone who is going to hunt will get a license regardless.

Maybe the commission’s ridiculous point system when it comes to bucks might have something to do with the decline in revenues.

I do not hunt, but I own acreage in a heavily hunted area of Butler County. During hunting season, I look forward to Sundays; it is the one day I can walk in the woods with my dogs without fear of being shot, or having one of my dogs shot.

The recent article in the Butler Eagle about the woman shot in the leg while standing in her driveway during hunting season makes me realize I should just stay in the house, but it is not bulletproof.

Then I also saw that people with mental illnesses are going to be allowed to get their guns back, as long as they take their meds. Note the man who was sentenced recently for shooting his roommate — he was off his meds.

I admit that I am overrun with deer. There’s been much damage to my flowers this year. They are mostly doe; the macho male does not consider it worth hunting if a deer does not have horns.

A large strip-mining operation, logging and Marcellus Shale drilling have driven deer off adjoining properties. The landowner behind me puts up no-doe-hunting signs.

But why does that landowner bother? For the most part, hunters are not shooting doe anyway.