What more need be said to establish the perversity of a gun-related activity than that the National Rifle Association has criticized the practice as being unsportsmanlike?
Perhaps just a bit more when we’re talking about Internet-based remote control hunting that provides participants with the opportunity to shoot a live animal with a click of the mouse. (Shooting mice with a mouse might at least help rid the world of a few unwanted rodents, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.)
Anyway, following the sensible lead of 22 other states that have already enacted such laws, Massachusetts state Sen. Robert Creedon has filed legislation that would prevent Bay State residents from establishing such “hunting preserves” within the state’s boundaries. Moreover, the bill would prohibit my fellow state residents from taking part in such online hunts.
Enforcement of the latter provision would be problematic, of course, but I’m going to be charitable and guess the prohibition is there primarily as a necessary adjunct to banning the establishment of such businesses; in other words, it would be difficult to ban the providing of a service if affording oneself of that service is not also illegal (think prostitute/john).
Perhaps Congress should step in and spare the other 27 states from having to go through these motions.
