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Fantastic Anarchist

(7,309 posts)
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 09:22 PM Sep 2013

Gun lobbyist proudly shoots an elephant in the face on NBC’s NRA-sponsored TV show

I'd like to punch this guy in the face repeatedly.

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Gun lobbyist proudly shoots an elephant in the face on NBC’s NRA-sponsored TV show
Someone over at NBC apparently decided it was a good idea to give the NRA their own show extolling the virtues of hunting.

Hunting! What’s more American than that? Just a man, a weapon, and his meal. Even when it’s in Botswana. And the hunt is for elephants—for their ivory tusks, just for the hell of it. And even when poaching has decimated these gorgeous creatures to the point that Botswana just passed a ban on hunting them starting in 2014.

In this week’s charming episode of the NRA’s “Under Wild Skies,” gun lobbyist for the group Tony Makris shoots an elephant right in the face, and then after triumphing over its dead, wasted body, drinks champagne with his guide to celebrate.


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Gun lobbyist proudly shoots an elephant in the face on NBC’s NRA-sponsored TV show (Original Post) Fantastic Anarchist Sep 2013 OP
Thanks for posting. Kicked for exposure. Squinch Sep 2013 #1
+1 nt Earth_First Sep 2013 #6
I'm sure the gun sick-o-phants will love it... villager Sep 2013 #2
What a fucking sick group of people. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #3
If you shoot an elephant you should be required to eat it jmowreader Sep 2013 #4
+1000 mercuryblues Sep 2013 #5
Exactly!!! Shooting an elephant for no damn reason, it's not sport, it's sickness! B Calm Sep 2013 #24
Well give the "man" a spear a knife and make him do it again........... let's see that on TV. 4bucksagallon Sep 2013 #7
I'm pro 2A, pro RKBA, and I say this is despicable. Skip Intro Sep 2013 #8
If it's like most of those canned hunts, he payed about $50K, which supports the herd Recursion Sep 2013 #16
Too Bad Animals Can't Shoot Back. TheMastersNemesis Sep 2013 #9
If guns were illegal Robb Sep 2013 #10
OK, you got me Recursion Sep 2013 #15
Hey, Bungalow Bill, what did you kill, Bungalow Bill? Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #11
So flabbergasted I can not think of one thing to say. Tigress DEM Sep 2013 #12
Called it a "very special occasion"... SomethingFishy Sep 2013 #13
Was this at one of those "conservation ranges"? Recursion Sep 2013 #14
Makris? We know where that bitch lives. flvegan Sep 2013 #17
Come on. The rifle can't be THAT positively lethal jmowreader Sep 2013 #18
Please take the time to check the photos of this filthy clown at google images: Judi Lynn Sep 2013 #19
I cannot and will not click on that link. Fantastic Anarchist Sep 2013 #20
Elephants may be wiped out in one decade! G_j Sep 2013 #21
I grew up hunting. Lizzie Poppet Sep 2013 #22
Disgusting. myrna minx Sep 2013 #23
bonus: he's now claiming we're "Hitler 1!!1!" for being upset with him: phantom power Sep 2013 #25

jmowreader

(50,561 posts)
4. If you shoot an elephant you should be required to eat it
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 09:37 PM
Sep 2013

Take the poor beast to a meat packing plant, have it cut and wrapped, pack it in dry ice and ship it home, where the hunter and his family can eat elephant three meals a day, seven days a week til it's all gone.

4bucksagallon

(975 posts)
7. Well give the "man" a spear a knife and make him do it again........... let's see that on TV.
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 10:16 PM
Sep 2013

I would pay to watch him "try"...........mano a pachyderm....... Reality TV would get interesting.

Skip Intro

(19,768 posts)
8. I'm pro 2A, pro RKBA, and I say this is despicable.
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 10:20 PM
Sep 2013

I'd like to punch the guy in the face as well. As a matter of fact, I don't think I'd have shed a tear for him had the elephant been able to trample him. Disgusting. And I doubt highly if this is representative of most 2A/RKBA supporters.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
16. If it's like most of those canned hunts, he payed about $50K, which supports the herd
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 12:50 AM
Sep 2013

It's icky, but that's the only way these conservancies have been able to get money: selling tickets to hunt the older animals from their herd.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
9. Too Bad Animals Can't Shoot Back.
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 10:26 PM
Sep 2013

I have not use for hunters actually. It is easy to hunt when you have all the advantages. If the bastard got run over by the beast he would deserve it. One less hunter would benefit the planet. There really is no legitimate reason anymore for hunting with so many animals near extinction.

I know I will get attacked by the trolls on this site. A real hunter would go after these beasts with their bare hands.

Robb

(39,665 posts)
10. If guns were illegal
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 10:38 PM
Sep 2013

...this man would simply have killed the elephant with a hammer. Or a swimming pool!

Tigress DEM

(7,887 posts)
12. So flabbergasted I can not think of one thing to say.
Thu Sep 26, 2013, 11:31 PM
Sep 2013
Insanity Complete and total insanity.


They don't even realize how much healthcare they really, really desperately need.


Got over my brain block. (Whew!)

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
13. Called it a "very special occasion"...
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 12:44 AM
Sep 2013

"To hunt an elephant and to harvest an elephant and to bring the ivory back to camp is a very, very special occasion,"

Rushing out to hunt an Elephant before the ban goes into effect. Sounds like the logic of the NRA to me.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
14. Was this at one of those "conservation ranges"?
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 12:48 AM
Sep 2013

Those are creepy, if it's what I'm thinking of. The ranges keep fairly large herds of endangered animals alive, and pay for it by selling licenses to hunt the older ones that don't breed anymore.

flvegan

(64,411 posts)
17. Makris? We know where that bitch lives.
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 01:30 AM
Sep 2013

Go ahead and alert, I know.

What's more American than what that pile of shit did? Making it right. You see, Tony Makris fancies himself a hunter. He's not, because as a waste of space and time he can't be.

I see the quotes from this moron: In the elephant killing segment (video below), the animal is demonized while Markis brags about his rifle, "Positively lethal, great to handle, beautiful gun."

And I see this: "Makris spots an elephant in the brush and shoots it in the face twice. He then chased the wounded elephant and shot it again, and it finally died." Makris is obviously too fucking stupid to exist.

I have guns and you just lost me, you dumbfuck. NRA be damned, dipshit.

Go fuck yourself.

jmowreader

(50,561 posts)
18. Come on. The rifle can't be THAT positively lethal
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 04:16 AM
Sep 2013

He put two rounds into the head of an animal and it ran off? Who taught this fuckhead to shoot, Sarah Palin?

Judi Lynn

(160,588 posts)
19. Please take the time to check the photos of this filthy clown at google images:
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 04:30 AM
Sep 2013
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4TSND_enUS411US412&q=Tony+Makris&tbm=isch

It would make a multitude of decent people so sick. This man is evil. How can anyone enjoy killing helpless creatures living in the only world they know?

Elephants have been witnessed many times mourning one of their fallen loved ones.

I surely hope the Karma bus gets a good run at this demon.

G_j

(40,367 posts)
21. Elephants may be wiped out in one decade!
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 08:39 AM
Sep 2013

between 90 and 100 are killed EVERY day!
good bye beautiful, noble creatures..

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
22. I grew up hunting.
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 10:02 AM
Sep 2013

I grew up hunting. Dad was adamant that hunting for pure sport (that is, with no intention to make use of the meat and/or hide) was a repellent practice. I have the same view. I stopped hunting at about 13 years old (the same time Dad switched to using a camera instead, as it happens). I have no objection to hunting, done responsibly and legally, but it's not for me.

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