....How do we go on the offense against the waterfowl ban? We'd have to run tests,....
...Let's compare to climate change. Yes, most scientists agree that it's happening, and it's happening due to human activity. BUT THERE ARE SOME WHO DO NOT AGREE, AND WHO SO STATE IN PUBLIC....
...I oppose going "on the offensive" not because I think "the offensive" in general is a bad way to go, but because I don't think THIS PARTICULAR OFFENSIVE can win....
Sure, I suppose we could run tests, but truthfully, would it matter? I'll jump quickly to the second point I highlighted. Is climate change the best thing to compare to? Up through January 19th., anyone that dared peep that they were a climate change denier was/is vehemently attacked and discredited. You do realize that the last prez said that climate change was the numero uno sec threat to the US? Science never, literally, had a snowballs chance in hell.
Back to duck tests. There's plenty of possibilities, but what would be done with the info. Have the waterways, that once poisoned ducks, been picked clean of lead shot? Is there residual contamination? If not was it ever there in the first place? It doesn't matter, shouldn't the last admin have kept the last lead mine/smelter open purely for military/national security, rather than rely on china for raw materials?
Nope, no tests are needed to go on the offensive against the lead shot ban for waterfowl. If this is an important enough issue, it'll be a microscopic speck attached to some other megabill. There's not a lefty lawmaker worth their private fortune, that would turn down unrelated pork for reelection hopes in their district. All it would take is the right czars and cabinet folks to send congress things to be included if they want the President's signature on legislation. Or, it could be lumped into the supposed 75% reg. rollback. New studies may help, but literature reviews of previous data and conclusions might convince the some folks to ease off of regs, too.
edit to add, my point hasn't been about speculating, only about what I've read in this thread how the lead threat has completely surrounded us, except for the lucky few that hunt upland birds away from waterways.
