Arcade Hunting: No Tribute To The Great Outdoors

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had a hunting video game installed in the agency’s cafeteria.

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Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke has just installed an arcade game called Big Buck Hunter Pro in his department’s cafeteria. Interior staffers can now take a few minutes’ break to aim toy rifles at a video screen and plink away at animated elk, antelope, caribou and deer.

The bucks fall over dead, but don’t bleed. It’s a game.

Secretary Zinke tweeted on Tuesday, “To highlight #sportsmen contributions 2 conservation I installed Big Buck Hunter in the employee cafeteria. Get excited for #hunting season!”

Secretary Zinke recently signed an order to expand hunting on public lands.

I do not hunt. That will not surprise almost anyone who listens to Weekend Edition. I do not find hunting a sport, as long as the deer and bears…

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