The lazy hunter’s guide to the internet |
Before any NRA zealots go off on me, please understand I strongly support the Second Amendment. I believe in our right to own and bear firearms even though I don’t own and have never owned one. I don’t want any laws passed which take those rights away because I know the bad guys will still get their guns. The bad guys already break the laws so more laws don’t protect us from them.
With that understanding, I don’t support real world hunting via the internet because it isn’t any kind of necessity or even sport. Lining up live animals with your mouse and clicking when they’re in the crosshairs which in turn fires a real gun somewhere and wounds/kills a real animal is the ultimate mark of lazy, non-hunting. Get off your ass, buy the gun, secure the license, get in the truck, walk around the woods, brave the elements, find the animal and shoot at it. If you kill it then clean it and bring it home and eat it. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I suppose this cuts down the thrill of killing as a sport for the disabled and handicapped, but this is one area that I won’t take up for the disabled. They can pay real hunters, not internet keyboard and mouse warriors. We have enough wannabe keyboard/mouse warriors as it is on the web.
Phil Windley at ZDnet writes:
Apparently 22 other states have banned it as well and a bill is pending before Congress (HR1558) that would ban it nationwide. Just as well, if you ask me.
Unfortunately Phil couldn’t give his post any more emotion than the rather passive “just as well, if you ask me” but I thank him for pointing this out so somebody else could call out this ultra lame, absurdly lazy method of hunting.
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I just wanna say that you are surely not of kindly and sympathetic dispostion, supporting hunting like Bush supporting illegal immigration. Since both gonna increase the rate of crime and violence.
Comment by lilychauchoin — July 12, 2006 @ 12:32 am PST
Wow, just when I was starting to think that I was getting a bit lazy too… This could mark the ultimate point in laziness in ones life. Can it even be any fun to do this? I have hunted in the past (have not in a couple of yeas because of my schedule) and I enjoyed it but I do not see much entertainment from this. I would rather go buy Deer Hunter 4 put the cheat code in so all the big ones come to me!
“…paying a deposit and fees of more than $1,500 to schedule a session.” I know I could find a lot of things to do with that $1,500.
Comment by Sean — July 12, 2006 @ 7:45 am PST
Not a hunter, but have a strong regard for our Second Amendment and love to target shoot.
This ‘Real World’ gig is a farce. Never in a million years could I conceive it as being real hunting.
Comment by E. David Quammen — July 12, 2006 @ 2:56 pm PST