Lawmakers go after ‘online kills’
p2pnet.net news:- ‘Want to gun something down online – like really gun something down?’ – p2pnet posted back in 2004, going on, ‘Then you’ll be keenly interested in Live-Shot, a Point, Click, Shoot web site which, if owner John Underwood is successful, will soon be Point, Click, Kill.’
The pic on the right shows how Underwood’s online kill op was set up.
But it didn’t happen, and now a Texas businessman, ‘who wanted to allow computer users to hunt from the comfort of their homes has instead spawned dozens of state laws banning the practice,’ says Associated Press, going on:
“Texas lawmakers shut down San Antonio businessman John Lockwood’s operation in 2005 and two dozen other states have since banned Internet hunting, according to the Humane Society of the United States. Connecticut lawmakers are now considering whether to follow suit and ban state residents from using a computer mouse to point, click and kill penned animals herded before a Web-based camera.
“Though Lockwood’s operation has been shut down and lawmakers don’t know of any others, backers of the bill say they want to prevent even the possibility of another such Internet venture.”
The bill would ban the operation, sale or use of computer software or service that allows a hunter “when not physically present, to remotely control a firearm or weapon to hunt a live animal or bird,” adds AP.
Also See:
really gun something down – Point, Click, Kill, November 20, 2004
Associated Press – More states move to ban Internet hunting, February 18, 2007
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February 20th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
‘The bill would ban the operation, sale or use of computer software or service that allows a hunter “when not physically present, to remotely control a firearm or weapon to hunt a live animal or bird,” adds AP.’
Hmmm nowhere in this quote, or the whole snippet above does it say that it is now or will become illegal to remotely control a firearm or weapon to kill a person or persons? Should i be worried about an apparent lack of concern for human life? Or is this another thing i should just shut up about and trust that our beloved leaders will look after us?
February 21st, 2007 at 5:14 pm
What the hell is “sportsmanlike” about sitting at a computer ‘remotely’ shooting innocent PENNED defenseless animals????? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!
If you want to hunt, then get off your LAZY FAT ASS, get a license and GO HUNTING….if you are perv enough to find killing animals for no reason “fun”.
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:26 pm
If you’re not going to eat what you kill then you certainly should NOT be killing anything. I occasionally hunt myself but I have never ever agreed with those that kill just for the sake of killing. Some idiots will do just about anything.