Please show me where I indicated that I thought the animal’s life was more important.
Have you listened to the video on that tape, because if you haven’t you should. You can hear how out of control that kid is.
I am amazed that you give the parents a complete pass.
That animal did not need to die. If the parent, like every single other parent that has ever come into the zoo, had kept their child under the proper control none of this would have been necessary.
Please bone up on your reading comprehension because you are not reading the words. Your are inserting your own idiotic point of view on others words.
And please, let this go. You and I clearly have had different life experiences. I am figuring it was your kids that I had to drive home in college because they were not responsible enough to handle themselves.
I was going to let it go but had to set things straight. My two daughters run my businesses. So they are and have been responsible.
Clearly the difference in our opinions lay where blame is to be accessed for shooting a gorilla. You apparently feel that somehow a parent whom you don't know and whom you've never met......due to parenting skills of which you're utterly and completely ignorant of...bears some responsibility for a gorilla being shot that was threatening the life of her child. Further you seem to think that the "out of control" 3 year old also bears responsibility since it was his "out of control" behavior that landed him in the moat. You have no basis in reality to take such a stance other than a snap judgment based on a few seconds of grainy video. Like it or not that's what it boils down to.
On the other hand I am thankful a child was saved from death even if it meant killing a gorilla to do it and assign no blame to the parent or the child for any role in the death of a gorilla. Accidents happen and they happen with 3 year old's a lot.