A psychiatrist might say compulsive writing in column after column on the same issue is a pretty good litmus test of a pathological obsession.

This makes me wonder if Sun Journal outdoor columnist V. Paul Reynolds isn’t starting to lose the tightness of his wrapper.

In an earlier bear column, he stated that I was so newsworthy that I was the “man who bit the dog.”

In another bear column, he severely chastised several notable sportsmen’s organizations for staying neutral on the issue.

In his most recent bear column, he sees a Humane Society of the United States devil lurking in the darkness ready to throw his hunting buddies into the pits of hell.

What gives this man such delirium tremors?

This bear referendum was merely trying to make the hunting of bear meet the same standards used in hunting deer, moose and turkey. It did not attempt to take away anyone’s heritage unless Reynolds thinks that abolishing slavery and giving women the right to vote also took away our heritage.

In his final cannonade, he blasts away at the only wall of protection the citizens have when the Legislative process is broken, a portion of our Constitution.

Determining ethical hunting methods, seasons and bag limits are not exactly rocket science and neither do they require the absolutism of our wildlife biologists.

If the citizens of Maine have sense enough to vote for president, they surely have sense enough to determine what is the right way to hunt a black bear.

Bill Randall, Winthrop