California To Ban Hunting On The Internet

California's Fish and Game Commission are preparing to take emergency action against Californians using a Texas site to hunt game remotely. Two weeks ago the state Senate passed a bill in response to the Texas web site. The bill prohibits computer-assisted hunting and the transportation of game killed from these activities.



This is amazing to me. I can't believe you can actually shoot animals online. I don't really see what the big deal is. If you can legally hunt something, you should be able to legally hunt the same things online. I could understand it if this was an illegal activity, but if people enjoy hunting live game from their computer screen, what right do we have to stop them?

And really how can we argue with these prices.

www.live-shot.com...

Individual, Membership (30 days) $14.95


Shooting Session (each)
10 shots - Max 20 minutes $ 5.95

DVD recording of session $ 9.95 plus shipping


Paper target from session $ 2.95 plus shipping

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[edit on 6-5-2005 by LeftBehind]

[edit on 27-9-2005 by DJDOHBOY]

It's illegal to sit in your truck and hunt from the road, so why should it be legal to do it from the comfort of your own home?

If you are going to kill an animal for sport, you should have to look it in the eyes first, and then handle it's body yourself. People should not be able to do such a thing without having to fully absorb the impact of it. It's just respect.

I'm not getting this, you can cyber-hunt?

What the hell is the purpose?

Another video game.

And yes, I read it, I just don't get it.

Apparently these sites allow you to shoot animals live over the internet.

They set up stands with remote controlled cameras and guns . Check the liveshots link, it explains how to go about killing wildlife from the comfort of your own home.

www.live-shot.com...

That's just frickin wrong. Life and death shouldn't be portioned out on the Net.

You shoot it, you clean it, you eat it.

I tell you, if you've got to do the dirty work after the shot, they'll be a lot less shots.

Once you've reduced a living thing to a "digital object", you may as well check out of society, because we become targets as well. Not like there's a lot of games that glorify that.

I have never heard of cyber hunting. I'm not a big fan of hunting to begin with but I have nothing against those that do it legally. I agree that cyber hunting should be illegal. If they want to do cyber target practice, fine. But killing an animal while sitting at the computer just seems really cruel and wrong.

No wonder people are so overweight. They can't even get away from their computer to go hunting!

Jemison

Does it really matter to the animal whether you are there or not?

I think the animals would disagree that it is more cruel to shoot them remotely.

I honestly don't see what the problem is.

Our government loves to ignore that whole "pursuit of happiness" part in the declaration of independence.

one step closer to skynet and the matrix.
who wouldn't like to remote control a predator aircraft and strafe a village full of third world 'people'?
one step closer. we'll be there soon.

it's old news....that they are proposing a law show's how old it is.

A couple years back this was on some news thing....showing hunting dear from a computer.....made me wonder what else you can do? hmmmm.......Can't wait to hunt with a "TRANSFORMER" then the dum' 22 cal. try~pod
Maybe the Army should do this....offer it free on the NET shoot at a shooting range...but BIG guns or even tanks .....bet the site would be overwhelm'd with people....get the recruitment levels up.

And don't forget now.....by 2050 they say....the robots are gon'a beat the World Soccer Camps....the bet i'z on

So the future is gona' see a'lot more of this...so get ready

Y'r Canadian friend,
Sven

I, for one do not see a problem here. Think of the disabled people who might enjoy having a chance to hunt. Everyone seems to see this as a "lazy person cyber hunt", but I see it as yet another chance for the American with Disabilites Act.

I wonder if the ACLU would tackle a case like this?

Be a great case!

The ACLU versus Pamela Anderson and the PETA people.

Of course, being one of those American with Diabilities I think we have far greater issues to drag into a courtroom than the rights of someone to shoot furry critters from the comfort of their screen.

If they do I want to testify in defense of the furry critters.

Worst case scenario would be some hunter walking through the area in Texas, lost or whatever, when the guy in California decides to just scare him a little.