Anti-Internet Hunting Laws Still Popular, Despite Lack Of Real Problem
from the overreact-much? dept
Quite a fuss was made a few years ago after a guy in Texas set up a website offering online hunting, which allowed people to shoot penned animals using a gun connected to a webcam. As we noted at the time, the reaction seemed a little bit overblown, as it was unlikely many people would actually use the sites, and they weren't likely to proliferate. Now, a couple of years later, some states are still piling on the legislation to make such point, click and shoot sites illegal. It's hard to defend the practice of these canned hunts, really, but backers of the legislation can't point to any examples apart from the original site, and admit that it's not a big problem, but they just want to "nip it in the bud." Twenty-five states have laws banning the practice, thanks to the tireless lobbying of the Humane Society, but there remains little evidence that it's actually a problem. It seems like if there really were a demand for this sort of thing, offshore operators would have emerged to tap it. After all, why bother getting online to shoot a penned Texas buck when you could find a site in Africa offering online big-game hunts?
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Making Internet Hunting Profitable
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SmartAssWhiz
Do you know how many people out there are sadistic (fill in your own derogatory remark here)?
They're too lazy to get off their duffs, much less do all of the other work related to actually hunting.
This feeds right into the power trip of those people. They can kill from anywhere! And they can sit on their couch with a bag of chips and a beer when they do it. Then they can go down to McBurgerHut and pretend like they're eating thier fresh kill.
They don't know the difference, and they don't care. They can pay for it with their stolen credit cards and brag to their friends about how exciting it is to be in the big hunt.
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Sporting
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It doesn't stop net neutrality folks.
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Extreme Hunting
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A hoax?
I think it is one big hoax meant to make the media and politicians look like complete a**es (although they do a good job without any help). Remember all the fuss about the company that let paying customers hunt women down with paintball guns - after all the fuss, it turned out to be a complete hoax.
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You dork. You seem to know how to use a computer to read and post information on the internet, yet you show an astonishing lack of understanding how to think.
Please do a Google search for black rhino bullet before you post a link to a rhinoceros site.
A 'Black Rhino' bullet is an armor piercing round for handguns (aka 'cop killers'). They were never sold in the U.S., despite a huge amount of 'news' reporting the opposite.
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It was a real proposal
I have a lot of scorn for the animal rights type (where I live, PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals), but this bonehead idea was a non-starter. I even agree that it is a good idea to officially ban the remote hunting idea -- I would make it a violation to use such a site.
Put it in context -- no different than spotlighting deer or shooting game birds over a baited field.
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hoax or not....
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If you have a disability that prevents you from hunting, deal with it and move on. We should not have to cater to every whim of the disabled like slaves. Let's face it, people that have disabilities have limits when it comes to some things. Granted, those people often prove they aren't as limited as we tend to think they are, but they still have limits. Obviously if you are in a wheelchair, you can't go out hunting. If that's the case go buy a good deer hunter computer game and/or find a hobby that's not beyond your limits. I'm sick of disabled people (not all disabled people are like this) whining about how rough they have it because we aren't out there trying to make the world a perfect place for them.
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rock'em sock'em
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overseas hunting....
How much do you think people would pay for that?
How about gorillas? Do people want to hunt gorillas?
Who do I talk to about setting this up?
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Skip the "troop surge". Just install these point, click, shoot systems at key street corners around Baghdad! Commission Junction points for every insurgent you shoot!
We could use Amazon's Mechanical Turk to manage the whole program!
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Hypocrisy
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In Defense of Canned Hunting
"It's hard to defend the practice of these canned hunts, really..."
Its not hard at all unless you have some sort of spiritual view of hunting as communing with nature as some of the posters here do seem to have (and I'm not sure why we should legislate against canned hunting based on purely pseudo-religious reasons).
The goal of hunting is to kill an animal for food, hide, etc. Canned hunting and even hunting over the Internet accomplishes that at least as humanely as a slaughterhouse.
A more complete defense of Internet-based canned hunting here.
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In Defense of Canned Hunting
"It's hard to defend the practice of these canned hunts, really..."
Its not hard at all unless you have some sort of spiritual view of hunting as communing with nature as some of the posters here do seem to have (and I'm not sure why we should legislate against canned hunting based on purely pseudo-religious reasons).
The goal of hunting is to kill an animal for food, hide, etc. Canned hunting and even hunting over the Internet accomplishes that at least as humanely as a slaughterhouse.
A more complete defense of Internet-based canned hunting here.
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What's wrong with the issue?
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Carlo Longino - Idiot much?
Next time maybe your post shouldn't be in the "overreact-much?" department...I think maybe the "I don't know what I'm talking about" department or the "ignorant yet opinionated" department. Just a suggestion.
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deers
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