Profile in courage
Sen. Mike Waddoups is going to sponsor a bill that would ban the hideous sport of Internet hunting in the state of Utah.
"What the heck is Internet hunting?" you ask? Basically, it's a hunting video game. When you see your trophy enter the screen, you mouse your crosshairs over, and BAM! -- Hasta la vista, baby.
Only it's not a game, a rifle mounted on a motorized tripod far, far away and controlled by your mouse puts a real slug into a real animal. (Has Mitt Romney heard about this?)
My question: Could Waddoups have found a safer issue to push at the Legislature?
The Humane Society is against it.
Thirty-four states -- even crazyassed Texas -- have outlawed it.
The NRA and Safari Club International have blasted it.
Guys named Bubba think it's a stupid idea.
And finally, Internet hunting doesn't even EXIST.
The Utah Humane Society explains:
"People may ask what the purpose is in proposing a law against a problem that doesn’t exist. The answer is that the potential is a very real threat, particularly here with our large rural expanses. We’d like to become the 35th state to have this safeguard in place."
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For more of Waddoups' "profile in courage," go here:
http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=6688EFF7-C66E-0C22-7555C238B0E515A9
(Story about Waddoups' bill ran in City Weekly last October.)
Here's the goofy backstory: Seems the Humane Society and other animal rights groups see this cooperative effort with Waddoups and other hunter/gun nuts as a way to get leverage with the Repubs on animal protection bills, namely Henry's Law.
We'll see where it gets them. -- Holly Mullen
It's not sporting to shoot animals on-line, but one citizen asked us to attach a BB gun and cross-hairs to the Senate Cam.
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