California to ban hunting over Internet

[Ernesto]

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Wildlife regulators took the first step Tuesday to bar hunters from using the Internet to shoot animals, responding to a Texas Web site that planned to let users fire at real game with the click of a mouse.
I don't know about you, but I just wish texas would stay the hell out of my state.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/05/04/internet.hunting.ap/index.html

[Double T]

1. Other States Should Follow Suit , Ban Hunting Over The Internet......

....I Wish Texas Would Stay The Hell Out Of This Country

[cascadiance]

2. Still waiting to see who commits the first case of

internet murder on this site and what state they get tried in, who arrests them, and what is the penalty, if a kid stumbles onto the "range" where the weapon is pointed, and someone uses the weapon to kill the kid. Is the web site an accessory to that crime? Do they have any responsibility at all? There's so much wrong with that web site that hasn't been considered.

[Andromeda]

3. What am I missing here?

How do you shoot something over the internet? With a mouse? I can't wrap my brain around this somehow.

[democracyindanger]

4. Guy sitting on a game farm with his finger on the trigger

The website owner has said that it was mainly for the handicapped. I kid you not.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. What a bizarre concept

Most hunters I know wouldn't go for this kind of thing. The purpose of going hunting or fishing is to get outdoors.

Groups including the California Sportsmen's Association, Safari Club International and the Outdoor Sportsman's Coalition of California support the ban, saying hunting over the Internet is unethical and unsporting.

On the other hand:

Supporters have suggested the remote hunting could be beneficial for hunters with disabilities and questioned why Californians should be barred from patronizing a legitimate Texas business.

Wealthy Texans over almost two centuries have been known to have some very strange ideas of legitimate business. Like slave trading and Enron.