Euphemism of the week: “sport shooter”

OK everyone, gather round, we’ve got an important update – apparently hunting is done. No more hunters anymore. Well, in Idaho, anyway. They’re called “sport shooters” now, if the article sent in by Sardonicus is anything to go by. Idaho has a massive federal preserve where guns are supposedly off limits, but with only 2 agents to patrol the area and relatively low fines for those who get caught, hunters, er, I mean sport shooters are regularly flaunting the laws. So what’s the difference between hunting and sport shooting? When I was younger I would have guessed that it would have involved skeet or a row of tin cans or something, but it turns out that the next generation of hunting takes aim at anything that moves, from ground squirrels to cattle to – wait for it – National Guard troops on training exercises. That’s right, the troops are reporting slugs bouncing off of their tanks on a regular basis. So there you have it. In other news, the guy beating up his wife is a sport pugilist, that glutton at the buffet is actually a sport eater and as for me, well, you can just call me a sport dumbass-pointer-outer.