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Internet Hunting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shooting-made-easy dept.

cybergrunt69 writes "An enterprising Texan, John Underwood currently has a website that lets you target-practice online with a .22 caliber rifle, but will soon start offering "hunting" abilities. He recently built a platform for about $10,000USD to house this new system on his 300 acre properly, but the Parks and Wildlife department is now scrambling to find ways to try and stop him. While this may sound like cheating to some people, this may be a large benefit to hunters with disabilities."

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  1. Not sport by FiReaNGeL · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hunting is a sport if you go in the wild, hiding for a long time, tracking your prey (and drinking beer, too). If it's just point and click at a screen to kill a REAL animal, it's not a sport, it's cruelty. I hope he burns in Hell. Or better, that a 'customer' shoots him accidentally!

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  2. This is an awesome idea. by multiplexo · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The military should figure out how to do this in Fallujah. Build an APC with a bunch of guns on it that could be remotely controlled via the internet. Then they could sell of time slots that would allow people to run around in Fallujah and kill insurgents.

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  3. Texas! by cjsnell · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    God damn, I love my state!

    Only in Texas!

  4. Re:What's the point? by killjoe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Hunting is about the lengths you will go to keep your family fed and healthy."

    I'd believe this if you ate what you hunted. But you don't so it has nothing to do with that.

    Hunting is about killing and proving your manhood. Every hunter went through that ritual with their dad or whatever. They killed, they got to like that feeling. Like you said we are animals and predetors. Killing is fun.

    If killing wasn't fun you wouldn't do it.

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  5. There aren't any hunters *without* disabilities by guru512 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There aren't any hunters *without* disabilities, so great news to all you brain-deads!

  6. Re:Gun rights primer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Didn't the US storm one hospital and flatten the other in Fallujah recently? They have also bombed other hospitals throughout Iraq

    When a hospital become a base of operations for an insurgent force it ceases to be a hospital and becomes a target.