Internet Hunting Banned in California

TheSync writes "California has banned Internet hunting. Emergency regulations will be put in place by the California Fish and Game Commission, and legislation (SB 1028) is in the works. West Virginia is considering legislation against it as well. Hunters consider hunting by robot and mouse click 'a digrace to the sport,' whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine."

Comments

Re:Wow

[Teh_monkeyCode]

> Way to make an unbiased and factual news post, Timothy!

You must be new here.

A real FPS!

[Palal]

Finally someone has come up with a real FPS! Next, an FPS on the streets of New York City with a remote-controlled robot! NICE!!!!! ====== Second ammendment does not belong in the constitution. ======

Re:Priorities -- what can you say for it?

[northcat]

Newsflash: Huting on foot doesn't make you "elite" or more of a man either.

How About Timothy Hunting?

[adavies42]

I propose setting up slashdot-poster-controlled robots to hunt down and exterminate Timothy. Posters consider editing by insertion of political messages 'a disgrace to slashdot'.

what d'ya mean 'innocent animals'?

[porky_pig_jr]

there is no such a thing as 'innocent'. we are all born in sin. that little bunny Foofoo didn't accept Jesus as its savior, so it has deserved to be mercilessly hunted and killed.

Re:Sadistic people

[evilviper]

However, people who kill animals for entertainment have mental issues.

"Entertainment" is really stretching it. People that hunt animals don't do it for entertainment, anymore than people who run marathons do that for "entertainment".

Any psychologist will tell you that children who kill animals for fun are prime candidates to become serial killers.

That's absolutely ridiculous. There are plenty of productive healthy members of society that went out hunting with their parents when they were quite young. They far outnumber the type of people whom you are aluding to...

It's not the "killing" of animals that is a sign of psociopathic tendencies. It's the torture of domestic animals, and the brutal methods of death (strangulation, mutilation, etc).

I don't get the thrill out of killing animals.

Just like everything else. You don't happen to like to hunt, so it must be wrong for anyone else to do so.

Just to preempt the gun-nut comments, I should say that I've personally never gone hunting for sport, and the only animals I've ever killed were rodents...

Re:Was this important to you?

[evilviper]

I dont see a difference between killing an animal for food or sport, even if the sport is done on the web.

I have a hard time seeing logging-on to a website, and remotely aiming a gun, a "sport". At least with actual hunting, there is a certain level of physical activity involved.

Do you see a difference between riding a bicycle yourself, and remotely controlling a motorized bicycle, in the Tour de France?

Re:Wow

[evilviper]

how could a decent person say that it's OK to artificially stock animals in small fenced areas, and then have a remotely fired gun

Hell, that just sounds (almost) like a cattle ranch to me. You must be a vegitarian...

I publish Vegan.com

Heh, am I good or what?

Animal rights is often incorrectly thought of as some fringe cause, only embraced by people on the left.

No, I think you are discribing the extremist views which your own seem to be, and then providing very different evidence to try and trick people.

if PeTA sometimes pisses people off and chooses stupid battles, that clearly means that everytime they oppose cruelty a sensible person should side against them.

No, it just means their views should be completely ignored.

Re:Back under your bridge

[korbin_dallas]

Hey try here:
http://www.atf.treas.gov/

In another culture, these guys would be called BrownShirts or Gestapo. The tax department has its own armed force. Ministry of Justice eh?