Hunting over internet via computer controlled rifles is 'abhorrent' and being outlawed...

[originalpckelly]

but hunting in real life isn't?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29300904/

"And we got to thinking, why just wildlife?" Burns said. "The idea of shooting any animal via the Internet is fairly abhorrent, so we added the words 'animal' or 'animals' to that amendment."

Um, yeah, but why is it wrong to shoot something over the internet and not wrong in person? Anyone else not get this? Perhaps it's because they don't get money from the hunting tourism? Oh yeah, that could be it.

Here are some more quotes:
Speaking of the entire bill, Burns said, "The so-called sport is up there frankly with dog fighting as far as being an activity that we don't want the people of Wyoming to be dealing in."

And:
However, Emmerich said, "Killing something on the Internet is not consistent with the whole concept of hunting and fair chase."

Are these people fucking serious?

[kirby]

1. If Palin can do it from a plane, why cant I on the net? n/t

[originalpckelly]

2. It's all insane, and fair chase? As we all know it's fair chase to shoot something with a gun...

it really has a fair shot against a fucking gun, right?

They are so fucked in the head.

[sorcrow]

3. What about drones?

I guess virtual hunters will just have to join the CIA's predator squadron to hunt "animals" via the internet....

[benld74]

4. Im gonna go out un by me onea dem new fangled computer guns,,

befor the gubbermint outlaws em!

[MineralMan]

5. Hmm...I wonder how they kill the steers they butcher to

put steaks in the supermarket? I'm sure that's better, right. Or the chickens?

You don't hunt. That's fine. I don't, either. Lots of people do, though, and they eat what they kill. Most often, when they go hunting, they come back empty handed, though. Maybe they kill one deer a year.

Now, my neighbor killed a deer last year. It ran out in front of his car. Now he's in a neck brace and a wheelchair. Hmm...

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. No hunting in real life is not abhorent

To some people, perhaps and increasing number, its the difference between going hungry and eating. Many urbanites are unaware that subsistence hunting is a reality in this country and will continue to be.

[petronius]

7. 'Cyber-hunting' isn't any kind of real hunting, but I don't think I would call it abhorrent

As long as the rifle hooked the camera is an appropriate caliber, the 'hunter' is capable of making a clean shot, and there is someone on site to track down and cleanly dispatch wounded animals, it's really just an incredibly stupid way for douchebag wannabe outdoorsmen to get their jollies.

I'd say it's the moral equivalent of picking your own lobster at the seafood place, and certainly not any less moral than paying a total stranger to bash in a steer's head with a bolt-gun...

[Paladin]

8. Try Some Ben-Gay On That Painful Stretch You Gave Yourself.

Make no mistake, this practice is indeed abhorrent---unless you want to see the "sport" of hunting disappear even faster than it already is (and trust me, it's dying out more every year), on the basis of pure public revulsion.....

[petronius]

9. Care to explain why it's "abhorrent", or should I just take your word for it?

:shrug:

And I don't hunt, so I don't particularly care if the sport dies out. People can participate or not, as they choose. However, I really doubt "public revulsion" has anything do do with the current decline in hunting...