Why is this a federal case?
It isn’t a federal case. It’s an ordinary state case, and the feds are not involved.
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Figuratively speaking.
Where I live, everyone hunts.
If you even dare to screw up a shot, be it bullet or bow, and do NOT go far and above to track the wounded animal and its suffering, you’re gonna be looked down upon severely by other hunters and potentially mocked or ostracized.
Killing is one thing.
Making a perverted “game” of it is another.
It’s that simple.
Ask yourself, would YOU do this to your hunted animal?
If not, WHY not?
There’s your answer