Other than the PETA comment I don't think it's true. I hunt with about everything you mentioned but a crossbow and I don't hate anybody?

I have to admit though the crybabies who are always crying for some rule change or another like a baby with a wet diaper are pushing it though. But it's got nothing to do with what ever LEGAL WEAPON they choose to use in a LEGALY REGULATED SEASON for that weapon. They are all the same whether they are balling for crossbows in archery, rifles in shot gun, or some antler restriction or one kind of buch moratorium. It's all a bunch of sour grapes and whining as a direct result of their own lack of hunting skill or percieved lacking there of.