Legislators you’d never call ‘good sports’ Mon. Feb. 06, 2006 Fort Wayne News Sentinel It was impressive to see the Indiana Department of Natural Resources muster the nerve to ban fenced hunting, a practice in which firearms operators (let’s not call them “hunters”) pay to shoot deer inside enclosures. Now legislators are showing themselves to be much less admirable than DNR bureaucrats. Members of the Indiana House of Representatives last week voted to keep these shooting galleries legal for another seven years. Some plead that they’re simply allowing the deer retailers who operate these farms to phase themselves out of business gradually. We’re not buying it. All manner of businesses have been callously disrupted through highway construction, dam repairs, eminent domain seizures or utility regulation. We can’t fathom why state representatives are getting misty-eyed about the urgency of preserving a disreputable form of hunting.