Intelligent speculation ......... like say analyzing all the states and provinces in Canada that allow crossbows in legal archery season, finding the negatives of them (which don't exist) and then using normal reasoning to conclude that they'd destroy your states archery season if they were legalized ?
The negatives I worry about come from problems which are immeasurable. Yes, they are theories, but that does not mean it can't and doesn't happen. All I'm saying is that I would rather not chance these problems in my state.
The fact of the matter is that the use of crossbows will probably never affect my life or any of my hunts directly. I just think that allowing the use of crossbows is bowing down to those hunters who choose to be lazy and not pick up a compound.
Now you can defend crossbow hunters all you want, but unless they have some sort of handicap to keep them from using compounds, they have no need for a crossbow.