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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGun 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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Someone over at NBC apparently decided it was a good idea to give the NRA their own show extolling the virtues of hunting.
Hunting! Whats more American than that? Just a man, a weapon, and his meal. Even when its in Botswana. And the hunt is for elephantsfor 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 weeks charming episode of the NRAs 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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Source: Death and Taxes Blog
Squinch
(50,986 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)jmowreader
(50,561 posts)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.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)4bucksagallon
(975 posts)I would pay to watch him "try"...........mano a pachyderm....... Reality TV would get interesting.
Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)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)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)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)...this man would simply have killed the elephant with a hammer. Or a swimming pool!
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I have to admit that was awesome.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)They don't even realize how much healthcare they really, really desperately need.
Got over my brain block. (Whew!)
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)"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)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)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)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)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.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)I don't want to be in rage mode when I go to work.
G_j
(40,367 posts)between 90 and 100 are killed EVERY day!
good bye beautiful, noble creatures..
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)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.
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)so neener neener!
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